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g; -- used also Fig. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes see…

ubstituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

hool that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or depart…

Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.

strength or support; a tonic. The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. Southey.

purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material f…

and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your coterie." Thackeray.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

hich is a white crystalline substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

il itself in deliberation. -- Council chamber, the room or apartment in which a council meets. -- Council fire, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the Indians hold their councils. [U.S.] Barilett. -- Council of war, an assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to…

aylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret wri…

Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]

in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.…

house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U.S.]