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In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

redit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. -- Balance thermometer, a thermometer mounted as a balance so that the movement of the mercurial column changes the indication of the tube. With the aid of electrical or mechanical devices adapted to it, it is us…

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

More correctly or thoroughly. The better to understand the extent of our knowledge. Locke.

language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentatio…

ngth of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guldinus's properties. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

he Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

o examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

d ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]

Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.

an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.

To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on. That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions. Shak. That time best fits the work. Shak. To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.…

In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.

rrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.