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Definition of corner

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Corner (n.) 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..

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Angle :: Angle (n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.

Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a corner.

Herne :: Herne (n.) A corner.

Exangulous :: Exangulous (a.) Having no corners; without angles.

Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..

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..

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..

Cantle :: Cantle (n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.

Peak :: Peak (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc..

Cornered :: Cornered (p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom..

Diagonal :: Diagonal (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..

Dog's-ear :: Dog's-ear (n.) The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog..

Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..

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)..

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..

Biangular :: Biangular (a.) Having two angles or corners.

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..

Cater-cornered :: Cater-cornered (a.) Diagonal.