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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Contemner :: Contemner (n.) One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Cornered :: Cornered (p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.
Bight :: Bight (v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow..
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Despiser :: Despiser (n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
Earing :: Earing (n.) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.
Cornerwise :: Cornerwise (adv.) With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
Corner :: Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part..
Nook-shotten :: Nook-shotten (a.) Full of nooks, angles, or corners..
Egilopical :: Egilopical (a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye..
Angulated :: Angulated (a.) Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves..
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..
Three-cornered :: Three-cornered (a.) Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat..
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..
Quinquangular :: Quinquangular (a.) Having five angles or corners.
Cantlet :: Cantlet (n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner.
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
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..
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..
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