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Contemner :: Contemner (n.) One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.

Out :: Out (n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In..

Rictus :: Rictus (n.) The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth..

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..

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

Nock :: Nock (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.

Inocular :: Inocular (a.) Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn/ of certain insects.

Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..

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

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..

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

Union :: Union (n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain..

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

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.

Halk :: Halk (n.) A nook; a corner.

Clue :: Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

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

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

Cornercap :: Cornercap (n.) The chief ornament.

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