cornered 
cornered (kor'nerd), a. [< ME. cornered; < cor- 
ner, 11., + -ed 2 .] Having corners or angles ; spe- 
cifically, having three or more angles : chiefly 
in composition : as, a three-cornered hat. 
Corsica is cornered with many forlonds [forelands] schet- 
ynge [shooting, projecting] in to the see. 
Tremsa, Works (ed. Babington), I. 305. 
Whether this building were square like a castle, or cor- 
nered like a triangle, or round like a tower. 
Austin, Hffic Homo, p. 75. 
cornerer (k6r'ner-er), n. One who corners or 
buys up all the available supply of a commod- 
ity for the purpose of inflating prices. [U. S.] 
cornering-machine (kdr'ner-ing-ma-shen'"), n. 
A machine used for rounding off the corners of 
woodwork. 
corner-piece (kor'ner-pes), . 1. An L-shaped 
casting or forging used to strengthen a joint. 
2. In bookbinding, same as corner, 6 (a). 
corner-plate (kor'ner-plat), n. An iron angle- 
plate or knee on the outer corner of the body 
of a freight-car, used to strengthen it and pro- 
tect the sills and sheathing from injury in case 
of a collision. 
corner-stone (k6r'ner-ston), n. 1. The stone 
which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites 
them ; specifically, the stone built into one cor- 
ner of the foundation of an edifice as the actual 
or nominal starting-point in building, in the 
case of an important public edifice or monumental struc- 
ture the laying of the corner-stone is usually accom- 
panied by some formal ceremony, and the stone is com- 
monly hollowed out and made the repository of historical 
documents, and of objects, as coins and medals, charac- 
teristic of the time. Also called memorial-stone. 
Who laid the corner-stone thereof ? 
Job xxxviii. C. 
See you yond' coign o' the Capitol ; yond' corner-stone ? 
Shak., Cor., v. 4. 
Hence 2. That on which any thing is founded ; 
that which is of the greatest or fundamental 
importance; that which is indispensable. 
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. 
Eph. ii. 20. 
So it is that educated, trained, enlightened conscience 
is the corner-stone of society. 
J. F. Clarice, Self-Culture, p. 201. 
Corner-tooth (k6r'ner-toth), . In vet. surg. 
and farriery, the lateral incisor of a horse, above 
and below ; the outermost incisor on each side 
of either jaw, four in all. They appear when 
the horse is 4J years old. 
cornerwise (kor'ner-wiz), adv. [< corner + 
-wise.} Diagonally ; with the corner in front ; 
not parallel. 
cornet 1 (kor'net), n. [Under this form are in- 
cluded two different Rom. forms : (1) Cornet, a 
horn, etc. (defs. 1-6), < ME. cornet, a horn (bu- 
gle), < OF. cornet, F. cornet, a horn, a bugle, a 
paper in the form of a horn, an inkhoru, etc., 
= Pr. cornet = Sp. cornete, m., a little horn, = 
It. cornetto, a little horn, a bugle, an inkhoru, 
a cupping-glass, < ML. cornetum, a horn (bugle), 
a kind of hood ; mixed with a fern, form, OF. 
cornette, F. cornette, a kind of hood, = Sp. Pg. 
eorneta = It. cornetta, a horn (bugle), < ML. 
corneta, a kind of hood, lit. little horn, dim. of 
L. cornu (> OF. corne, etc.), a horn : see corn 2 , 
corner, etc., and cf. liorn. (2) Cornet, a standard 
or ensign, a troop of horse, an officer (def. 7) 
(not in ME.), < F. cornette = Sp. Pg. eorneta = 
It. cornetta, a standard or ensign (orig. having 
two points or horns), hence a troop of horse 
bearing such a standard, and the officer com- 
manding the troop; orig. same as OF. cornette, 
etc., dim. of corns, etc., < L. cornu, horn : see 
above.] 1. In music: (a) Originally, a musi- 
cal instrument of the oboe class, of crude con- 
struction and harsh tone. 
David and all the house of Israel played before the 
Lord ... on cornets. 2 Sam. vi. 5. 
(6) Same as cornet-a-pistons, (c) An organ-stop 
having from 3 to 5 pipes to each key, and giving 
loud and somewhat coarse tones: now rarely 
made. A mounted cornet is such a stop with its pipes 
raised upon a separate sound-board, so as to make its tone 
more prominent ; an echo cornet is a similar stop, but of 
much more delicate quality, usually placed in the swell- 
organ. Also comet-stop, (df) A pedal reed-stop of 2- 
or 4-feet tone. 2. A little cap of paper twisted 
at the end, in which retailers inclose small wares. 
3. The square-topped academic cap. 4. (a) 
A woman's head-dress or a part of it, probably 
named from its angular or pointed shape, as the 
end or corner of the tippet of the chaperon in 
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. J. S. 
Planche'. 
I never sawe my lady laye apart 
Her cornet blacke, in cold nor yet in heate, 
Sith fyrst she knew my grief was growen so greate. 
Surrey, Complaint. 
1270 
(6) That part of the head-dress worn in the 
seventeenth century that hung down beside 
the cheek; a flap, a pendent strip of lace, or 
the like. See pinner. Also called bugle-cap. 
5. In dressmaking, the shaping of a sleeve near 
the wrist : so called from its resemblance to what 
is known as trumpet-shape. 6. Same as cor- 
nette. 7. Milit. : (a) A flag or standard. Espe- 
cially (1) A flag borne before the king of France, or dis- 
played when he was present with the army. It was either 
plain white or white embroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis. 
(2) A flag of a company of cavalry. 
The cornet white with crosses black, ilacaulay, Ivry. 
(6) The officer of lowest commissioned grade 
in the cavalry, to whose charge this flag was 
confided : a term equivalent to ensign in the in- 
fantry. The office of cornet is now abolished in Eng- 
land, and is nearly represented by that of second lieuten- 
ant or sub-lieutenant, (c) A company of cavalry, 
named in like manner from the standard car- 
ried at its head. 
A body of five cornets of horse. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
Bass cornet, an obsolete large, deep-pitched brass instru- 
ment. 
cornet 2 (k6r'net), n. Same as coronet 1 , 6. 
cornet 2 t, . t. [< cornefi, n., = coronet 1 , 6.] To 
let the blood of (a horse). 
cornet-a-pistons (kor'net-a-pis'tonz), n. ; pi. 
cornets-a-pistons. [F., a cornet with pistons: 
see cornet 1 and piston.'] 
A musical instrument 
of the trumpet class, 
having a cupped mouth- 
piece and a conical 
brass tube, the length 
of which may be in- 
creased and the tone 
chromatically lowered 
by opening valves into 
little crooks or bends 
of tubing (whence the 
name). The compass is 
about two octaves, including 
all the semitones. The fun- 
damental tone or key is usu- 
ally 8)7 or EK, but other tones 
are used. The quality of the 
Corn-fly (Chlorops taniopits). 
(Cross shows natural size.) 
Cornets-a-Pistons. 
i. Ordinary shape. 2. Circular 
shape. 
tone is penetrating and unsympathetic, by no means equal 
to that of the true trumpet, for which it is commonly sub- 
stituted. Also cornet, and rarely cornopean. 
cornetcy 1 (kor'net-si), n. [< cornet 1 , 7 (b), + 
-cy.] The commission or rank of a cornet. 
See cornet 1 , 7 (b). 
A cornetcy of horse his first and only commission. 
Chesterfield. 
cometer (kor'net-er), n. [< cornet 1 , I (b), + 
-er 1 .] One who blows a cornet. 
Mr. King could see . . . the corneters lift up their horns 
and get red in the face. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 34. 
cornet-stop (kor'net-stop), n. In music, same 
&s cornet 1 , 1 (c). 
cornette (k6r-nef), n. [F., fern. dim. of corne, 
a horn: see horn, cornet 1 .'] In metal., the little 
tube of gold left when the alloy of silver and 
gold taken from the cupel is rolled and boiled 
in nitric acid to remove the former metal. 
Also spelled cornet. 
cornettist (kor'net-ist), . [< cornet 1 , 1 (6), + 
-ist.~\ A player upon a cornet-a-pistons. 
corneule (k6r'ne-ul), n. [= F. eomeule, < NL. 
cornenla, dim. of cornea, q. v.] One of the mi- 
nute transparent segments which defend the 
compound eyes of insects; the cornea of an 
ocellus ; a cornea-lens. 
corn-exchange (korn'eks-chanj*), n. A place 
or mart where grain is sold or bartered, and 
samples are shown and examined. [Eng.] 
corn-factor (k6rn'fak"tor), n. One who traffics 
in grain by wholesale, or as an agent. [Eng.] 
COm-field (korn'feld), n. In Great Britain, a 
field in which corn of any kind is growing; a 
grain-field; in the United States, a field of 
Indian corn or maize. 
corn-flag (k&rn'flag), n. The popular name of 
the plants of the genus Gladiolus, bearing red 
or white flowers, and much cultivated as orna- 
mental plants. 
corn-floor (korn'flor), n. A floor for corn, or for 
threshing corn or grain. Isa. xxi. 10. 
corn-flower (k6rn'nou"er), n. A flower or plant 
growing in grain-fields, as the wild poppy, and 
especially the bluebottle, Centaurea Cyanus. 
There be certain corn-flowers which come seldom or 
never in other places, unless they be set, but only amongst 
corn : as the blue-bottle, a kind uf yellow marygold, wild 
poppy, and fumitory. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
cornice-hook 
corn-fly (korn'fli), n. An insect of either of 
the genera (Jldorops and Oscinis, of the family 
Muscidw : so called 
from the injury they 
inflict on growing 
crops. Chloropn tcenivpus, 
the most destructive of Brit- 
ish corn-Hies, is about 1 
lines in length, and of a yel- 
low color striped with black. 
It deposits its eggs between 
the leaves of wheat- and bar- 
ley-plants, and its larvse, by 
extracting the juices, pro- 
duce the disease called 
gout, from the swelling of 
the joints of the plants. 
corn-fritter (korn'frif'er), n. A fried batter- 
cake made of grated green Indian corn, milk, 
and eggs. 
corn-grater (korn'gra'ter), . A roughened 
surface used for rasping corn (maize) from the 
cob. 
corn-growing (korn ' gro " ing), a. Producing 
corn : as, a corn-growing country. 
corn-hook (korn'huk), n. A blade somewhat 
resembling a short scythe, and set in a handle 
at an angle a little greater than a right angle, 
used to cut standing corn (maize), 
corn-husker (k6rn'hus"ker), n. A machine 
for stripping- the husks from ears of maize. 
corn-husking (korn'hus'king), . A social 
meeting of friends and neighbors at the house 
of a fanner to assist him in stripping the husks 
or shucks from his Indian corn ; a husking-bee 
(which see). Also corn-shucking. [U. S.] 
cornic (kor'nik), a. [< Cornus + -ic.] Existing 
in or derived from the bark of Cornus florida. 
- Cornic acid. Same as cornin. 
cornice (kor'nis), n. [Early mod. E. also eor- 
nish; = D. kornis = G. carniesz (> Dan. Sw. kar- 
nis, > Russ. karnizu), 
< OF. cornice, P. 
corniche, < It. cor- 
nice (= Sp. cornisa; 
cf. Pg. cornija), < 
ML. cornix (cornic-), 
a border, a contr. 
(appar.) of eoronix, 
a square frame (the 
ML. cornix, eoronix 
being simulations of 
L. cornix, a crow), 
< Gr. Kopuvic, a 
wreath, garland, a 
curved line or flour- 
ish at the end of a 
book, the end, com- 
pletion, prop, adj., 
curved, < nopuv6s, 
curved; akin to L. 
corona, > ult. E. 
crown : see corona, 
crown.~\ 1. In arch., 
any molded projec- 
tion which crowns 
or finishes the part 
to which it is affix- 
ed; specifically, the 
rliiWJ r\v iinr^vTYirtoT Doric Cornice Construction, Assos. 
third Or Uppermost ( From Papers of theArchawl. Inst. of 
division of an entab- America, i., .B&. > 
lature, resting on the 
frieze. (See column.) 
When the crowning course of a wall is plain, it 
is usually called a coping. 
The cornice is as indispensable a termination of the wall 
as the capital is of a pillar. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 32. 
2. An ornamental molding, usually of plaster, 
running round the walls of a room just below 
the ceiling. 3. In upholstery, an ornamental 
band or molding which covers and conceals 
the rod or hooks from which curtains, etc., are 
hung. 4. A molding or strip of wood, plain 
or gilded, fastened to the walls of a room, at 
the proper height from the floor, to serve as a 
support for picture-hooks ; a picture-cornice. 
Architrave cornice. See areliitran-. Block cor- 
nices. See blocks. Cornice-ring, the ring in a cannon 
next behind the muzzle-ring. Horizontal cornice, in 
arch., the level cornice of a pediment under the two in- 
clined cornices. 
corniced (kdr'nist), a. [< cornice + -erf 2 .] 
Having a cornice. 
The corniced shade 
Of some arched temple door or dusky colonnade. 
Keats, Lamia, i. 
cornice-hook (kor'nis-huk), n. A double hook 
used in hanging pictures upon a picture-cornice. 
One part of the hook catches the cornice, and 
the other forms a support for the picture-cord. 
arnice ; B, frieze ; C, archi- 
D, stylobate ; J-, stereobate. 
