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Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..

Correction :: Correction (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach..

Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish..

Chastisement :: Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Uncorrigible :: Uncorrigible (a.) Incorrigible; not capable of correction.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Incurable :: Incurable (a.) Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils..

Reformation :: Reformation (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses..

Deal :: Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with..

Correctioner :: Correctioner (n.) One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction..

Emendation :: Emendation (n.) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement..

Amendment :: Amendment (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

Revisal :: Revisal (n.) The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Revision :: Revision (n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes..

Revise :: Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod..

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

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