Definition of corner

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Corner (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

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Coin :: Coin (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin..
Around :: Around (prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table..
Earing :: Earing (n.) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
Square :: Square (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure..
Portal :: Portal (n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment..
Cutaway :: Cutaway (a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
Angularly :: Angularly (adv.) In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom..
Trinket :: Trinket (n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..
Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..
By-corner :: By-corner (n.) A private corner.
Cornered :: Cornered (imp. & p. p.) of Corne.
Quoin :: Quoin (n.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked..
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Sprite :: Sprit (v. i.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate..
Rotundate :: Rotundate (a.) Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners..
Four-poster :: Four-poster (n.) A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
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