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. [ L. directio: cf. F. direction. ] 1. The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o&unr_; public affairs or of a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do commit his youth
To your direction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gun.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm.

Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence; oversight; government; order; command; guide; clew. Direction, Control, Command, Order. These words, as here compared, have reference to the exercise of power over the actions of others. Control is negative, denoting power to restrain; command is positive, implying a right to enforce obedience; directions are commands containing instructions how to act. Order conveys more prominently the idea of authority than the word direction. A shipmaster has the command of his vessel; he gives orders or directions to the seamen as to the mode of sailing it; and exercises a due control over the passengers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to direction (definition 2). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. serving to indicate direction. [ PJC ]

3. (Radio) transmitting radio signals in a specific direction, or receiving signals only from a narrow angle of directions, thus serving to indicate the direction from which radio signals are coming. Used of antennas; as, a directional antenna. [ PJC ]

n. the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.
Syn. -- directivity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.
Syn. -- adrift(predicate), afloat(predicate), aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. erectio: cf. F. érection. ] 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything erected; a building of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rouse up; ex out + pergere to wake up. ] A waking up or arousing. [ Obs. ] Holland [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + correction: cf. F. incorrection. ] Lack of correction, restraint, or discipline. [ Obs. ] Arnway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indirection. ] Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. “By indirections find directions out.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insurrectio, fr. insurgere, insurrectum: cf. F. insurrection. See Insurgent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [ Obs. ]

Syn. -- Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though of their names in heavenly records now
Be no memorial, blotted out and razed
By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. insurrectionnel. ] Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The direction of another's attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected; as, misdirection is an important part of a magician's art. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. porrectio: cf. F. porrection. ] The act of stretching forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rectio, fr. regere to rule or govern. ] (Gram.) See Government, n., 7. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source. ] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of being risen from the dead; future state. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the resurrection, and the life. John xi. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. --
Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To raise from the dead. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]