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.
By-corner :: By-corner (n.) A private corner.
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..
Corner :: Corner (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
Cant :: Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
Three-cornered :: Three-cornered (a.) Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat..
Rummage :: Rummage (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf..
Cater-cornered :: Cater-cornered (a.) Diagonal.
Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..
Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..
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..
Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..
Rotundate :: Rotundate (a.) Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners..
Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..
Bite :: Bite (v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper..
Whip :: Whip (v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner..
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..
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..
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
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