corner tooth

(See extract.) "Corner- teeth of a Horse are the four teeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old."-Farrier's Dict. corner-wise, *corner-wyse, adv. Diagonally; with the corner in front; not square. "Corner-wyse. Angulatim ." -Huloet . †cor'-ner, v . t . [CORNER, 8.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: To drive into a corner or an angle. 2. Fig .: To drive into a corner, and so into a position of great difficulty. II. Comm.: To buy up all the available supply of any commodity, so as to drive the speculative sellers into a corner; to act as a cornerman (q. v.). †cor'-ner-a-ble, a. [Eng. corner; -able.] Capable of being bought up by a cornerman (q. v.). "Useful articles of daily consumption are, perhaps, corner able, but only at enormous outlay and risk, unle speculative buying and selling have already gone great lengths with them."-London Daily News. *corn-ere, s . [Eng. corn, and ere =ear.] An ear of corn. "The sweuene of the seuene corneres." -Trevis a, ii. 305. cor'-nered, a. [Eng. corner; -ed.] 1. Lit .: Having corners; angular. ". square like a castle, or corner'd like a triangle, or round like a tower." -Austin : Hæc Homo , p. 75. Generally used in compounds; as, Three-cornered, four-cornered, . 2. Fig .: Driven up into a corner; placed in a position of great difficulty. *cornered-cap, s. A corner-cap. "Square or four cornered- capps."-Strype: Life of Parker; App., No. 40. †cor'-ner-er, s. [Eng. corner; -er.] A cornerman (q. v.). "Is the cornerer either morally or legally a worse man than the cornered?"- London Daily News. cor-ner-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [CORNER, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: corner. 1. Ord . Lang .: The act of driving or putting in a 2. Comm.: The buying up of any article, so as to place the speculative sellers of it in a corner. [CORNERMAN.] "Probably no one unconnected with a very speculative kind of trade absolutely approves of or defends ' corner ing.'"-London Daily News. cor'-ner-le , a. [Eng.corner; -le .] Having no corners or angles; not angular. "Thrust into straight corners of poor wit Thee, who art corner le and infinite." Donne: Transl. of Psalms.