n. Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abhorrence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abhorens, -rentis, p. pr. of abhorrere. ] 1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent. Clover. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to. “Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles.” Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Detestable. “Pride, abhorrent as it is.” I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With abhorrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abhors. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Detestable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

Amenorrhea AS
‖ n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + mh`n month + "rei^n to flow: cf. F. aménorrhée.] (Med.) Pathological or physiological absence of menstruation. [1913 Webster + AS]

a. Pertaining to amenorrhoea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Andorra. Population (2000) = 22, 390. [ PJC ]

a. (Med.) Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n. A remedy for hemorrhage. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; mucus + &unr_; to flow. ] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Borachio. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., etc. See Borage, n., etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. burel a kind of coarse woolen cloth, fr. F. bure drugget. See Bureau. Rustic and common people dressed in this cloth, which was prob. so called from its color. ] 1. Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prob. from Borrel, n. ] Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Borrowed p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing. ] [ OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. &unr_;95. See 1st Borough. ] 1. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To feign or counterfeit. “Borrowed hair.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The borrowed majesty of England. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To receive; to take; to derive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of borrowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who borrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc. -- Ca*mor"rist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

[ Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine). ] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. corradere, -rasum; cor- + radere to rub. ] 1. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [ Obs. ] Dr. R. Clerke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Radiating to or from the same point. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., a yard, a yard for cattle, fr. corro a circle or ring, fr. L. currere to run. Cf. Kraal. ] A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corraled p. pr. & vb. n. Corralling. ] To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Corrade. ] (Geol.) The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corrosive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort. ] Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. [ 1913 Webster ]

Always use the most correct editions. Felton.

Syn. -- Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See Accurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corrected; p. pr. & vb. n. Correcting. ] 1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. [ 1913 Webster ]

My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Syn. -- To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise; punish; discipline; chasten. See Amend. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Capable of being corrected. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To correct. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.
Syn. -- correction, rectification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. correctio: cf. F. correction. ] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. --
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. --
Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctionnel. ] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. correct or appropriate behavior.
Syn. -- propriety, properness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Qualifying; limiting. “The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.” Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Limitation; restriction. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or making correction; corrective. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who corrects. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., orig., a corrector. ] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner. ] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating. ] [ Pref. cor- + relate. ] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]