CPage 422
- English Word Cornemuse Definition A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
- English Word Corneocalcareous Definition Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.
- English Word Corneocalcareous Definition Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.
- English Word Corneouss Definition Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.
- English Word Corner Definition The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- English Word Corner Definition The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
- English Word Corner Definition An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
- English Word Corner Definition A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- English Word Corner Definition Direction; quarter.
- English Word Corner Definition The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
- English Word Corner Definition To drive into a corner.
- English Word Corner Definition To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
- English Word Corner Definition To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
- English Word Cornercap Definition The chief ornament.
- English Word Cornered Definition of Corner
- English Word Cornered Definition 1 Having corners or angles.
- English Word Cornered Definition In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
- English Word Cornering Definition of Corner
- English Word Cornerwise Definition With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
- English Word Cornet Definition An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
- English Word Cornet Definition A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
- English Word Cornet Definition A certain organ stop or register.
- English Word Cornet Definition A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
- English Word Cornet Definition A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
- English Word Cornet Definition The standard of such a troop.
- English Word Cornet Definition The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
- English Word Cornet Definition A headdress
- English Word Cornet Definition A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
- English Word Cornet Definition A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
- English Word Cornet Definition See Coronet, 2.