cor neo silicious (kor neosilishus)

[ ML. cornerium, corner i a, a corner, neut. and fem. forms of adj. * corner i us, spelled corneirus, pertaining to an angle or corner), ML. corn a ), a corner, angle, lit. a horn, a projecting point, horn; Ir, cearn, cearna, a corner; AS. hyrne, ME. herne, hurne, huirne (= OFries. herne = Icel. hyrna (cf. hyrning ) = Dan. hjörne = Sw. hörn), a corner, They [hypocrites] love to pray standing in the... corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Mat. vi. 5. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaporous drop, profound. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 5. IMG:content-1319.png:[blocks in formation] Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Lev. xix. 27. They shall not make baldne upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard. Lev. xxi. 5. 6. In bookbinding : (a) A triangular tool used for decorating the corners of a book. Also cor ner - piece . ( b ) The leather or other material used in the corners of a half-bound book. (c) One of the metal guards used to protect the corners of heavily bound books.-7. A metallic cap or guard used to protect the corners of furniture, trunks, boxes, etc.-8. In surv ., a mark placed at a corner of a surveyed tract. [U. S.] We have frequently heard the old surveyors along the Ohio say that they often met with his [Col. Crawford's] corners. Quoted in S. De Vere's American isms, p. 173. 9. A monopolizing of the marketable supply of a stock or commodity, through purchases for immediate or future delivery, generally by a secretly organized combination, for the purpose of raising the price: as, a corner in wheat. [U.S.] - Four corners. (a) The limits of the contents deed," "to take an instrument by the four corners," originated in the use of only one side of a single sheet of parchment for writing a deed, and refer to what may be learned from the face of the instrument itself. (b) A place where two main highways intersect each other at right angles: sometimes used in names of places in the United States: as, Chas am Four Corners in Columbia county, New York. The Corner, among English sporting men, Tattersall's horse-repository and betting-rooms in London: so called from its situation, which is at Hyde Park Corner. of a document. The phrases "within the four corners of a corner (kôr'ner), v. [ by purchases immediate future delivery, until the whole available supply is nearly or quite monopolized. [U. S.] II. in trans. 1. To meet in a corner or angle; form a corner. [Rare.] The spot where N. Carolina, S. Carolina, and Georgia corner. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXI. 653. 2. To be situated on or at a corner; impinge or be connected at an angle: as, the house corners on the main street, or (when standing cornerwise) to the street or road; Sweden cor ners on Ru ia at the north. corner-capt (kôr'nėr-kap), n. cap: so called from its square top. The academic A little old man in a gowne, a wide ca ock, a night-cap, and a corner - cap , by his habit seeming to be a Divine. Breton, A Mad World, p. 8. The name of a gallant is more hateful to them than the sight of a corner - cap . Middle ton, Family of Love, iv. 1. corner-chisel (kôr'nėr-chizel), n. See chisel2 . corner-cutter (kôr'nėr-kut"ėr), n . A cutting pre used in trimming the corners of blank books and cards and shaping the blanks of paper boxes.