Definition of corner

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Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..

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Angulous :: Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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..
Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..
Angularly :: Angularly (adv.) In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
By-corner :: By-corner (n.) A private corner.
Rotundate :: Rotundate (a.) Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners..
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..
Earing :: Earing (n.) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.
Four-poster :: Four-poster (n.) A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..
Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..
Heel :: Heel (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position..
Angle :: Angle (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
Nook-shotten :: Nook-shotten (a.) Full of nooks, angles, or corners..
Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..
Quincunx :: Quincunx (n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions..
Corner :: 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..
Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords..
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