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radually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

In corymbs.

Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

See Cozen.

See Cozenage.

Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill.

Perceiving together.

See Cozy. Dickens.

To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

One who coshers.

his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord. Maca…

A tailor who botches his work. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the same signification. Cockerham.

portant public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.

See Cozily.

A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.