n. [ F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory. [ PJC ]

4. a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine. [ PJC ]

. A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Correi. [ Scot. ] Geikie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. corrigendum. a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections; as, an insert with addenda and corrigenda. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Corrigenda [ L. ] 1. A fault or error to be corrected. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A correction of an error, especially in a printed document. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. corrigens, p. pr. of corrigere to correct. ] (Med.) A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Submissive to correction; docile. “Bending down his corrigible neck.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having power to correct; corrective. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To compete with; to rival. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [ R. ] Bp. Fleetwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corivalry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corivalry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. corrivatus, p. p. of corrivare to corrivate. ] To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corrivatio. ] The flowing of different streams into one. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incorrigibilité. ] The state or quality of being incorrigible. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorrigibilis: cf. F. incorrigible. See In- not, and Corrigible. ] Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. “Incorrigible fools.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is incorrigible; a person whose persistent bad behavior cannot be changed; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles; incorrigible and disruptive children need to be placed in a separate classroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incorrigible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incorrigible; not capable of correction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]