To wrinkle or purse up, as the skin is drawn into wrinkles by cold or any other cause. Quincy.

The cramp cometh of contraction of sinews: it cometh either by cold or dryness; for cold and dryness do both of them contract and corrugate. Bacon's Nat. Hist. CORRUGA'TION. n. s. [from corrugate.] Contraction into wrinkles.

The pain of the solid parts is the corrugation or violent agitation of fibres, when the spirits are irritated by sharphumours. Floyer on the Humours. To CORRUPT. v. a. [corrumpo, corruptus, Latin.]

1. To turn from a sound to a putrescent state; to infect.

2. To deprave; to destroy integrity; to vitiate; to bribe.

I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians.

All that have miscarried

Shak.

By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice. I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife, is when she 's fallen out with her husband. Shakspeare's Coriolanus.

But stay, I smell a man of middle earth; With trial fire touch me his finger-end: If he be chaste, the flame will back descend, And turn him to no pain; but if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shakspeare. Language being the conduit whereby men convey their knowledge, he that makes an ill use of it, though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, which are in things, yet he stops the pipes. Locke.

Hear the black trumpet thro' the world proclaim,

That not to be corrupted is the shame. Pope. 3. To spoil; to do mischief.

To CORRUPT. v. n. To become putrid; to grow rotten; to putrefy; to lose purity.

Bacon,

The aptness or propension of air or water to Borrupt or putrefy, no doubt, is to be found before it break forth into manifest effects of diseases, blasting, or the like. CORRUPT. adj. [from To corrupt.] 1. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated in its qualities.

Coarse hoary moulded bread the soldiers. thrust upon the points of their spears, railing against Ferdinand, who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

2. Unsound; putrid.

As superfluous flesh did rot, Amendment ready still at hand did wait, To pluck it out with pincers fiery hot, That soun in him was left no corrupt jot. Spens. 3. Vitious; tainted with wickedness; without integrity.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying. Ephesians. Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire. Shak. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness

Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, Than twenty silky ducking observants. Shaks. Some, who have been corrupt in their morals, have yet been infinitely solicitous to have their children piously brought up. South's Sermons. CORRUPTER. n. s. [from corrupt.] He

that taints or vitiates; he that lessens purity or integrity.

Away, away, corrupters of my faith! Shakı. From the vanity of the Greeks, the corrupters of all truth, who, without all ground of certainty, vaunt their antiquity, came the errour first of all. Raleigh's History of the World.

Those great corrupters of christianity, and indeed of natural religion, the Jesuits. Addin CORRUPTIBILITY. n. s. [from corrupti ble.] Possibility to be corrupted. CORRUPTIBLE. adj. [from corrupt.] 1. Susceptible of destruction by natural decay, or without violence.

Our corruptible bodies could never live the life they shall live, were it not that they are joined with his body which is incorruptible, and that his is in ours as a cause of immortality. Hasker. It is a devouring corruption of the essential mixture, which, consisting chiefly of an oily moisture, is corruptible through dissipation.

Harvey on Consumptions.

The several parts of which the world consists being in their nature corruptible, it is more than probable, that, in an infinite duration, this frame of things would long since have been dis solved. Tillure.

2. Susceptible of external depravation ; possible to be tainted or vitiated. CORRUPTIBLENESS. n. 3. (fiom corrept ible.] Susceptibility of corruption. CORRUPTIBLY. adv. [from corruptible.] In such a manner as to be corrupted, or vitiated.

It is too late; the life of all his blood Is touch'd corruptibly. Shakspeare's King Lear. CORRUPTION. n. s. [corruptio, Latin.] 1. The principle by which bodies tend to the separation of their parts.

2. Wickedness; perversion of principles; loss of integrity.

Precepts of morality, besides the natural cer ruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom get an opportunity for descriptions and images. Addison on the Georgieks. Amidst corruption, luxury, and rage, Still leave some ancient virtues to our age.

3.

Putrescence.

4.

5.

Pope

The wise contriver, on his end intent, Careful this fatal errour to prevent, And keep the waters from corruption free, Mixt them with salt, and season'd all the sea. Blackmore.

Matter or pus in a sore. The tendency to a worse state. After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Seak, 6. Cause, or means of depravation.

The region hath by conquest, and corruption of other languages, received new and differing Raleigh's History.

names.

All those four kinds of corruption are very common in their language; for which reasons the Greek tongue is become much altered. Brerewood on Languagts.

ed by him: and if he were noble, or a gentleman, he and his children are made ignoble and Cowell. ungentle, in respect of the father. CORRUPTIVE. adj. [from corrupt.] Having the quality of tainting or vitiating. Carrying a settled habitude unto the corruptive originals. Brown's Vulgar Errours. It should be endued with an acid ferment, or some corruptive quality, for so speedy a dissolution of the meat and preparation of the chyle. Ray on the Creation. CORRUPTLESS. adj. [from corrupt.] Insusceptible of corruption; undecaying. All around,

The borders with corruptless myrrh are crown'd.
Dryden.

CORRUPTLY. adv. [from corrupt.]
1. With corruption; with taint; with
vice; without integrity.

O, that estates, degrees, and offices,
Were not deriv'd corruptly! that clear honour
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!
Shakspeare.

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments. Nehemiah. 2. Vitiously; improperly; contrary to purity.

We have corruptly contracted most_names, both of men and places. Camden's Remains. CORRUPTNESS. n. s. [from corrupt.] The quality of corruption; putrescence;

her corse.

Spenser. Shak.

Set down the corse; or, by saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. What may this mean; That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous?" Shakspeare's Hamlet. Here lay him down, my friends, Full in my sight; that I may view at leisure The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. Addison. CO'RSELET. n. s. [corselet, French.] A light armour for the forepart of the body.

Some shirts of maile, some coats of plate

put on,

bore

Dict.

Bacsn.

Garth.

Dict. CORYMB'IFEROUS. adj. [from corymbus and fero, Lat.] Bearing fruit or ber ries in bunches.

Corymbiferous plants are distinguished into such as have a radiate flower, as the sun-flower; and such as have a naked flower, as the heinpagrimony, and mugwort: to which are added those a-kin hereunto, such as scabious, teasel, thistle, and the like. Quincy. CORYMBUS. n. s. [Latin.]

Amongst the ancient botanists, it was used to express the bunches or clusters of berries of ivy: amongst modern botanists, it is used for a compounded discous flower, whose seeds are not pappous, or do not fly away in down; such are the flowers of daisies, and common marygold. Quincy COSCINOMANCY. n. s. [from xxivov, a sieve, and pavrda, divination.] The art of divination by means of a sieve. A very ancient practice, mentioned by Theocritus, and still used in some parts of England, to find out persons unknown. Chambers.

COSE'CANT. n. s. [In geometry.] The secant of an arch, which is the comple ment of another to ninety degrees.

Co'sHERING. n. s. [Irish.]

Harris.

Cosherings were visitations and progresses made by the lord and his followers among his tenants; wherein he did eat them (as the Eng lish proverb is) out of house and home. Davies. Co'sIER. n. s. [from couser, old French, to sew.] A botcher. Hanmer.

Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house; that ye squeak out your cosier catches, without Shaks. any mitigation or remorse of voice? Co'sINE. n. s. [In geometry.] The right sine of an arch, which is the comple ment of another to ninety degrees.

Harris.

COSMETICK, adj. [xontxi;] Having

CO'SMICAL. adj. [xócμ®]

1. Relating to the world.

Pope.

2. Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

The cosmical ascension of a star we term that, when it ariseth together with the sun, or in the same degree of the ecliptick wherein the sun abideth. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CO'SMICALLY. adv. [from_cosmical.] With the sun; not acronycally.

From the rising of this star, not cosmically, that is, with the sun, but heliacally, that is, its emersion from the rays of the sun, the ancients computed their canicular days. Brown. COSMO'GONY. n. s. [xicμ and yóm.]

The rise or birth of the world, the creation. COSMO'GRAPHER. 2.s. [xioμ and ygápu.] One who writes a description of the world; distinct from geographer, who describes the situation of particular

countries.

The ancient cosmographers do place the division of the east and western hemisphere, that is, the first term of longitude, in the Canary or Fortunate Islands, conceiving these parts the extremest habitations westward. Brown. COSMOGRAPHICAL. adj. [from cosmography.] Relating to the general description of the world. COSMOGRAPHICALLY. adv. [from cosmographical.] In a manner relating to the science by which the structure of the world is discovered and described.

The terrella, or spherical magnet, cosmographi cally set out with circles of the globe. Brown, COSMO'GRAPHY. n. s. xiou and, yata.] The science of the general system or affections of the world: distinct from geography, which delivers the situation and boundaries of particular countries.

universe.

Here it might see the world without travel; it being a lesser scheme of the creation, nature contracted, a little cosmography, or map of the South. COSMOPOLITAN.Į n. s. [xio and COSMO'POLITE. πολίτης.] A citizen of the world; one who is at home in every place. CO'SSET. H. S.

out the dam.

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A lamb brought up with

my

If thou wilt bewail woeful teen, I shall thee give yond' cosset for thy pain.

Spenser

COST. n. s. [kost, Dutch. As this word is found in the remotest Teutonick dialects, even in the Islandick, it is not probably derived to us from the Latin consto; though it is not unlikely that the French couster comes from the Latin.] 1. The price of any thing. a. Sumptuousness; luxury.

4.

3.

To

The city woman bears

The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders. Shakspeare.

Let foreign princes vainly boast The rude effects of pride and cost Of vaster fabricks, to which they Contribute nothing but the pay. Charge; expence.

Waller

While he found his daughter maintained without his cost, he was content to be deaf to any noise of infamy. Sidery.

I shall never hold that man my friend, Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cast, To ransom home revolted Mortimer. Shaksp. Have we eaten at all of the king's cast? r hath he given us any gift?

And wilt thou, O cruel boast!
Put poor nature to such cost?
O!t will undo our common mother,
To be at charge of such another.

2 Samuel

Craibar.

It is strange to see any ecclesiastical pile, not by ecclesiastical cost and influence, rising above ground; especially in an age in which men's mouths are open against the church, but their hands shut towards it. South's Serman).

He whose tale is best, and pleases most, Should win his supper at our common cost. Dryden's Fables. Fourteen thousand pounds are paid by Wood for the purchase of his patent: what were his other visible costs, I know not; what his latent, Swift. is variously conjectured. Loss; fine; detriment.

What they had fondly wished, proved afterwards to their costs over true.

COST. v. n. pret. cost; particip. cost. [couster, Fr.] To be bought for; to be had at a price.

The dagger and poison are always in read! ness; but to bring the action to extremity, and then recover all, will require the art of a writer, and cost him many a pang. Drya. CO'STAL. adj. [costa, Lat. a rib.] Belonging to the ribs.

Hereby are excluded all cetaceous and cartila! ginous fishes; many pectinal, whose ribs are rece tilineal; and many costal, which have their ris embowed. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. CO'STARD. n. s. [from coster, a head.] I. A head.

Take him over the cestard with the belt of thy sword. Shakspeare's Richard' in. 2. An apple round and bulky like the head.

Many country vicars are driven to shifts; and if our greedy patrons hold us to such conditions, they will make us turn costard mongers, grasers, or sell ale. Burton on Melancholy, [constipatus, Latin;

CO'STIVE. adj.

constipé, French.]

1. Bound in the body; having the excretions obstructed.

When the passage of the gall becomes alstructed, the body grows costive, and the excre Brown ments of the belly white.

While faster than his costive brain indites, Philo's quick hand in flowing letters writes; His case appears to me like honest Teague's When he was run away with by his legs. Pra 2. Close; unpermeable.

Clay in dry seasons is certive, hardening with the sun and wind, till unlocked by industry, s as to admit of the air and heavenly influences. Mortimer's Hashcatry CO'STIVENESS. n. s. [from costive.] The state of the body in which excretion is obstructed.

Comes like a rushing lion, couch like spaniels, With lolling tongues, and tremble at the paw. Dryden.

3. To lie down in secret, or in ambush. We'll couch i' th' castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shakspeare. The earl of Angus couched in a furrow, and was passed over for dead, until a horse was brought for his escape. Hayward.

4. To lie in a bed, or stratum.

Blessed of the Lord be his land for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. Deut. 5. To stoop, or bend down; to lower in fear, in pain, in respect.

These couchings, and these lowly curtesies, Might stir the blood of ordinary men. Shaksp. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens. Genesis.

To COUCH. v. a.

1. To repose; to lay on a place of repose. Where unbruis'd youth, with unstuff'd brain, Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shakspeare.

2. To lay down any thing in a bed, or

stratum.

If the weather be warm, we immediately ouch malt about a foot thick; but if a hotter season require it, we spread it on the floor much thinner, Mortimer's Husbandry. The sea and the land make one globe; and the waters couch themselves, as close as may be, to the centre of this globe, in a spherical convexity.. Burnet's Theory of the Earth.

3. To bed; to hide in another body.

It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls, to gather the wind from the top, and to pass it down in spouts into rooms. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

4. To involve; to include; to comprise.

But who will call those noble, who deface, By meaner acts, the glories of their race; Whose only title to their fathers' fame Is couch'd in the dead letters of their name? Dryden's Juvenal.

That great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched in the words I have read to Atterbury's Sermano.

you.

Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears

Till thickest legions close. Milten's Par. Les The former wav'd in air" His flaming sword; Æneas courb'd his spear. Dryden's Eneid. 8. To depress the condensed crystalline humour or film that overspreads the pupil of the eye. This is improperly called couching the eye, for couching the cataract: with equal impropriety they sometimes speak of couching the patient. Some artist, whose nice hand Couches the cataracts, and clears his eyes, And all at once a flood of glorious light Comes rushing on his eyes.

Dennis.

Whether the cataract be wasted by being s parated from its vessels, I have never known po sitively by dissecting one that had been comited. COUCH. n. s. [from the verb.]

Sharp

1. A seat of repose, on which it is common to lie down dressed.

So Satan fell: and straight a fiery globe Of angels on full sail of wing flew nigh; Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him soft From his uneasy station, and upbore, As on a floating couch, through the blithe air. Milton's Paradise Reginal.

To loll on couches rich with citron steds, And lay their guilty limbs in Tyrian beds. Dryden's Virg. Georgisks, O ye immortal pow'rs that guard the just, Watch round his couch, and soften his repose Addison's Cat

2. A bed; a place of repose.

3.

Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. Shake Dire was the tossing, deep the groans! Despăr Tended the sick, busiest from couch to coach. Milton's Paratist Let. This gentle knight, inspir'd by jolly May, Forsook his early couch at early day.

A layer, or stratum.

Drydet.

This heap is called by maltsters a con, of bed, of raw malt. Mertimer's Husbandry

Co'UCHANT. adj. [couchant, Fr.] Lying down; squatting.

If a lion were the coat of Judah, vet were it not probably a lion rampant, but rather a or dormant.

Brown

As a tiger, who by chance hath spy'd, In some purlieu, two gentle fawns at play, Straight couches close; then rising, changes of His sexsband watch. Milton's Peretin Lat