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A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

Any corridor or passage in a building.

access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. South.

Rapport; relation; connection; reference. [Obs.] The corridors worse, having no report to the wings they join to. Evelyn.

e whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.