Corrosion

1828.sorabji.com > Webster's 1828 English Dictionary

Browse Webster's 1828 Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is regarded by many as the finest English dictionary ever published. The dictionary is available in many forms. I made the content available here for my own purposes, out of personal admiration for this particular dictionary.

You can also look up words at dict.sorabji.com

See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.

CORROSION, 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.

corrosion appears in definitions for these words:
Canker Corrosively Eat Erosion Exulceration Fret Mordication

NEW: Google Full-Text Search of Webster's 1828