Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COR-ROB'O-RA-TIVE, n.

A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

COR-RODE', v.t. [L. corrodo; con and rodo, to gnaw, Ar. أَرَضَ aradha, to eat or gnaw, (qu. raw and crude;) It. corrodere, rodere; Fr. corroder; Sp. corroer; W. rhwtiaw, to corrode, to rub or fret.]

1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away, or diminish by gradually separating small particles from a body, in the manner an animal gnaws a substance. Thus, nitric acid corrodes copper.
2. To wear away by degrees; to prey upon; to impair; to consume, or diminish by slow degrees. Jealousy and envy corrode the constitution. Substances are corroded by time. The anxious man is a victim to corroding care.

COR-ROD'ED, pp.

Eaten away gradually; worn, diminished, impaired by slow degrees.

COR-RO'DENT, a.

Having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees.

COR-RO'DENT, n.

Any substance or medicine that corrodes. – Coxe.

COR-RO'DI-ATE, v.t.

To eat away by degrees. – Sandys.

COR-RO-DI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being corrodible.

COR-RO'DI-BLE, a.

That may be corroded. – Brown.

COR-ROD'ING, ppr.

Eating away gradually; impairing; wasting.

COR'RO-DY, n. [See Corody.]

But corrody is the most correct orthography.

COR-RO-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [See CORRODIBILITY.]

COR-RO'SI-BLE, a. [See CORRODIBLE.]

COR-RO'SI-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being corrosible.

COR-RO'SION, n. [s as z. from corrode.]

The action of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metals, by which the substance is gradually changed. This is effected by the affinity of the menstruum with the component parts of the substance, in consequence of which the two substances unite and form new combinations.

COR-RO'SIVE, a.

1. Eating; wearing away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming or impairing; as, corrosive sublimate; corrosive care; a corrosive ulcer.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing. Corrosive sublimate, the corrosive muriate or perchloride of mercury.

COR-RO'SIVE, n.

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing gradually.
2. That which has the power of fretting. – Hooker.

COR-RO'SIVE-LY, adv.

Like a corrosive; with the power of corrosion; in a corrosive manner.

COR-RO'SIVE-NESS, n.

The quality of corroding, eating away or wearing; acrimony. – Boyle.

COR'RU-GANT, a. [See Corrugate.]

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.

COR'RU-GATE, a.

Wrinkled. Young.

COR'RU-GATE, v.t. [L. corrugo; con and rugo, to wrinkle, in our vulgar language, to ruck, W. rhyçu, to furrow.]

To wrinkle; to draw or contract into folds; as, to corrugate the skin. – Bacon.

COR'RU-GA-TED, pp.

Wrinkled.

COR'RU-GA-TING, ppr.

Contracting into wrinkles.

COR-RU-GA'TION, n.

A wrinkling; contraction into wrinkles.

COR'RU-GA-TOR, n.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles. – Coxe.