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n. 1. Detestation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ See Forel. ] Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See Horror. ] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

Syn. -- Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure. ] 1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not in the legions
Of horrid hell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horrid things they say. Pope.

Syn. -- Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a horrid manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being horrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See Horror, -fy. ] Causing horror; frightful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which causes horror. [ R. ] Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Horrified p. pr. & vb. n. Horrifying ] [ L. horrificare. See Horrific. ] To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. horripilatio, fr. horripilare to bristle; horrere to bristle + pilus the hair: cf. F. horripilation. ] (Med.) A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Horrisonous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrisonus; horrere to be horrible + sonus a sound. ] Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 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 ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Lorries [ Prob. from lurry to pull or lug. ] 1. A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A motorized wheeled land vehicle, esp. a large one, with a cab for the driver and a separate rear compartment for transporting freight; called truck in the U. S. [ Brit. ]
Syn. -- camion. [ PJC ]

3. a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as 1st Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dancing the morrice; dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

In shoals and bands, a morrice train. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A morris dancer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. See Mormal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. morisco Moorish, fr. Moro a Moor: cf. F. moresque, It. moresca. ] 1. A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictitious characters. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed at the angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The figure consists of three concentric squares, with lines from the angles of the outer one to those of the inner, and from the middle of each side of the outer square to that of the inner. The game is played by two persons with nine or twelve pieces each (hence called nine-men's morris or twelve-men's morris). The pieces are placed alternately, and each player endeavors to prevent his opponent from making a straight row of three. Should either succeed in making a row, he may take up one of his opponent's pieces, and he who takes off all of his opponent's pieces wins the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from its discoverer. ] (Zool.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. the proper name Morris. ] A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A Moorish pike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. corrupted from It. ireos iris. See Iris. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Iris (Iris Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orris pea (Med.), an issue pea made from orris root. --
Orris root, the fragrant rootstock of the orris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ Contr. from orfrays, or from arras. ] A sort of gold or silver lace. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by OE. porree a kind of pottage, OF. porrée, fr. L. porrum, porrus, leek. See Pottage, and cf. Porringer. ] A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]