Definition of corner

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Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.

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Hexangular :: Hexangular (a.) Having six angles or corners.
Contemner :: Contemner (n.) One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Rummage :: Rummage (n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over..
Angulated :: Angulated (a.) Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves..
Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..
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..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail)..
Nook :: Nook (n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.
Peak :: Peak (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc..
Clue :: Clue (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
Turning :: Turning (n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
Exangulous :: Exangulous (a.) Having no corners; without angles.
Earing :: Earing (n.) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
Eyestone :: Eyestone (n.) A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance..
Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..
Pentagonal :: Pentagonal (a.) Having five corners or angles.
Dog-eared :: Dog-eared (a.) Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book.
Gyron :: Gyron (n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner..
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