CPage 633
- 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.