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<A NAME="corpuschristi">
<B>Corpus Christi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a feast of the Roman Catholic Church in honor of the Eucharist, held on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday. </DL>
<A NAME="corpuscle">
<B>corpuscle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any of the cells that form a large part of blood and lymph. Red corpuscles carry oxygen from the lungs to various parts of the body and remove carbon dioxide; some white corpuscles destroy disease germs. <DD><B> 2. </B>certain parts of the nervous system, such as skin nerve endings, that respond to pressure. <DD><B> 3. </B>a very small particle. <BR> <I>Ex. Until about the middle of the 17th century, it was generally believed that light consisted of a stream of corpuscles (Sears and Zemansky).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corpuscular">
<B>corpuscular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of corpuscles; consisting of corpuscles; like that of corpuscles. <BR> <I>Ex. That spring the sun emitted a series of unusually strong and well-defined corpuscular clouds (Scientific American).</I> (SYN) cellular. </DL>
<A NAME="corpuscularian">
<B>corpuscularian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with corpuscles or with the corpuscular philosophy. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who favors or believes in the corpuscular philosophy. </DL>
<A NAME="corpuscularphilosophy">
<B>corpuscular philosophy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine of atoms considered as a general explanation of the phenomena of the world, especially this doctrine as advocated by Robert Boyle in the 1600's. </DL>
<A NAME="corpusculartheory">
<B>corpuscular theory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the theory that light is propagated as particles. </DL>
<A NAME="corpuscule">
<B>corpuscule, </B>noun. <B>=corpuscle.</B></DL>
<A NAME="corpusdelicti">
<B>corpus delicti,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the body of a murdered person, serving as concrete evidence that a crime has been committed. <DD><B> 2. </B>the actual facts that prove a crime or offense against the law has been committed. <BR> <I>Ex. The armies of investigators here and abroad ... have scarcely finished a preliminary examination of the corpus delicti (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corpusjuris">
<B>corpus juris,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a complete collection of laws, as of a state or district. </DL>
<A NAME="corpusluteum">
<B>corpus luteum, </B>pl. <B>corpora lutea.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a yellow endocrine mass formed in the ovary when a Graafian follicle (sac containing ova) breaks up in pregnancy or menstruation. In pregnancy, the corpus luteum produces progesterone. <DD><B> 2. </B>an extract of the corpus luteum of a cow or a hog, used in the treatment of ovarian disorders. </DL>
<A NAME="corpusstriatum">
<B>corpus striatum, </B>pl. <B>corpora striata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either of two bodies of nerve fibers in the brain, each forming part of the undersurface of a cerebral hemisphere. </DL>
<A NAME="corpusvitreum">
<B>corpus vitreum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the vitreous humor of the eye. </DL>
<A NAME="corr">
<B>corr.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD><B> 1a. </B>corrected. <DD><B> b. </B>correction. <DD><B> 2a. </B>correspondence. <DD><B> b. </B>correspondent. <DD><B> c. </B>corresponding. <DD><B> 3. </B>corrugated. <DD><B> 4. </B>corruption. </DL>
<A NAME="corrade">
<B>corrade, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb. <B>-raded,</B> <B>-rading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) to wear down by corrasion. </DL>
<A NAME="corral">
<B>corral, </B>noun, verb, <B>-ralled,</B> <B>-ralling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a pen for horses, cattle, and other animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>a circular camp formed by wagons for defense. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to drive into or keep in a corral. <BR> <I>Ex. The cowhands corralled the herd of wild ponies.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to hem in; surround; capture. <BR> <I>Ex. After a long chase the boys finally corralled the runaway dog.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to form (wagons) into a circular camp for defensive purposes. </DL>
<A NAME="corrasion">
<B>corrasion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) the scraping away of rock by the action of rock fragments moved by wind or water. </DL>
<A NAME="corrasive">
<B>corrasive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) of or characterized by corrasion. </DL>
<A NAME="correct">
<B>correct, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>free from mistakes or faults; true; right. <BR> <I>Ex. He gave the correct answer.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>agreeing with a good standard of taste; proper. <BR> <I>Ex. correct manners, correct dress.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>conforming to an accepted standard, especially one that is socially acceptable within a certain group. <BR> <I>Ex. The narrator, instead of having a winged horse, has an environmentally correct car (Guy Garcia).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to change to what is right; remove mistakes or faults from. <BR> <I>Ex. Correct any wrong spellings that you find. His near-sightedness was corrected by properly fitted glasses.</I> (SYN) amend. <DD><B> 2. </B>to point out or mark the mistakes in, so that they can be made right. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher corrected our tests and returned them to us. The brash youngster did not hesitate to correct his elders in public.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to adjust to agree with some standard. <BR> <I>Ex. to correct the reading of a barometer.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to punish; set right by punishing; find fault with to improve. <BR> <I>Ex. The mother corrected her child for misbehaving.</I> (SYN) discipline, chastise, reprove. <DD><B> 5. </B>to counteract or neutralize (something hurtful or undesirable); overcome. <BR> <I>Ex. Medicine can sometimes correct stomach trouble.</I> (SYN) remedy, cure. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make a correction or corrections; make up for a deviation or error. <BR> <I>Ex. He corrected desperately as the car bounced into a ditch (New Yorker). Brokers said [that] the market "corrected" after its runup the previous days (Wall Street Journal). It is possible to transfer genetic information from one type of cell, thereby correcting for a genetic deficiency in that cell (Science News).</I> adj. <B>correctable,</B> <B>correctible.</B> adv. <B>correctingly.</B> adv. <B>correctly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="corrected">
<B>corrected, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> made free from mistakes or faults. <BR> <I>Ex. a corrected test paper.</I> (SYN) emended, rectified. </DL>
<A NAME="correctedtime">
<B>corrected time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the time taken by a racing yacht to sail over a course after any adjustments, as for handicapping. </DL>
<A NAME="correction">
<B>correction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of correcting or setting right; amendment. <BR> <I>Ex. The correction of all my mistakes took nearly an hour.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something put in place of an error or mistake; emendation. <BR> <I>Ex. Write in your corrections neatly.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>punishment; rebuke; scolding. A prison is sometimes called a house of correction. (SYN) chastisement. <DD><B> 4. </B>an amount added or subtracted to correct a result. <BR> <I>Ex. He made a correction for the thickness of the lens.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the counteracting or neutralizing of harmful or unpleasant effects, for example of a medicine. </DL>
<A NAME="correctional">
<B>correctional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with correction; corrective. <BR> <I>Ex. a correctional institution for young delinquents.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="correctitude">
<B>correctitude, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> correctness of conduct or behavior. <BR> <I>Ex. Like his father and grandfather he had an eye for correctitude in dress and decorations (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corrective">
<B>corrective, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> tending to correct; setting right; making better. <BR> <I>Ex. Corrective exercises will make weak muscles strong.</I> (SYN) remedial. <DD><I>noun </I> something that corrects or tends to correct. <BR> <I>Ex. Penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. A corrective for overacidity is an alkaline substance.</I> (SYN) remedy. adv. <B>correctively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="correctness">
<B>correctness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being free from mistakes or faults or of agreeing with a standard of good taste. <BR> <I>Ex. He denied the correctness of the assertion (H. H. Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or condition of being politically correct. <BR> <I>Ex. The incident has sent the Globe into spasms ... of correctness ... Management quickly posted a stern memo saying that sexist remarks "will not be tolerated here" (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corrector">
<B>corrector, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that corrects. </DL>
<A NAME="corregidor">
<B>corregidor, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dores.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the chief magistrate of a Spanish town. <DD><B> 2. </B>formerly in the American colonies of Spain: <DD><B> a. </B>a magistrate having jurisdiction of certain special cases prescribed by law. <DD><B> b. </B>the chief officer of a corregimiento. </DL>
<A NAME="corregimiento">
<B>corregimiento, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) a geographical division of a province in an American colony of Spain; the district of a corregidor. </DL>
