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Correcting
- verb - adjust for;
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
- censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- make right or correct;
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
- treat a defect;
Correspond
- verb -
- be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics
- exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"
- take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin"
Costeaning
- - The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Cudgelling
- verb - strike with a cudgel
Cumberland
- noun - a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky
- English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)
Cummerbund
- noun - a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
Curvetting
- verb - perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse
Cyamellone
- - A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.