corner drill (kor nerdril)

Same as angle brace (b). cornered (kôr nėrd), a . [ cornered ; cornered hat. Corsica is cornered with many forlonds [forelands] schet- ynge [shooting, projecting] in to the see. Trevis a , Works (ed. Babington), I. 305. Whether this building were square like a castle, or cor- nered like a triangle, or round like a tower. Austin , Hæc Homo, p. 75. cornerer (kôr'nėr-ér), n. One who corners or buys up all the available supply of a commod- ity for the purpose of inflating prices. [U.S.] cornering-machine (kôr'ner-ing-ma-shēn"), n . A machine used for rounding off the corners of IMG:content-1320.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] (b) That part of the head-dre worn in the corn-fly (kôrn'fli), n. An insect of either of seventeenth century that hung down beside the genera Chlorops and Oscinis , of the family the cheek; a flap, a pendent strip of lace, or the like. See pinner . Also called bugle - cap.- 5. In dre making , the shaping of a sleeve near the wrist: so called from its resemblance to what is known as trumpet-shape.-6. Same as cor- nette.-7. Milit .: ( a ) A flag or standard. Espe- cially-(1) A flag borne before the king of France, or dis- played when he was present with the army. It was either plain white or white embroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis. (2) A flag of a company of cavalry. IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] cornet2 (kôr'net), n. Same as coronet1 , 6. cornet2t, v. t. [ cornet1 and piston .] A musical instrument ★ of the trumpet cla , having a cupped mouth- piece and a conical bra tube, the length of which may be in- creased and the tone chromatically lowered by opening valves into little crooks or bends 1. Ordinary shape. 2. Circular shape. of tubing (whence the name). The compa is about two octaves, including all the semitones. The fun- damental tone or key is usu- ally Bh or Eh, but other tones are used. The quality of the tone is penetrating and unsympathetic, by no means equal to that of the true trumpet, for which it is commonly sub- stituted. Also cornet , and rarely cornopean . cornetcy1 (kôr'net-si), n. [ cornet1 , 7 (b). Corn-fly (Chlorops taniopus). (Cro shows natural size.) corn-husker (kôrn husker), n. A machine for stripping the husks from ears of maize. corn-husking (kôrn'hus king), n. meeting of friends and neighbors at the house of a farmer to a ist him in stripping the husks or shucks from his Indian corn; a husking-bee (which see). Also corn- shucking . [U.S.] cornic (kôr'nik), a . [ -ic .] Existing in or derived from the bark of Cornus florida. nis , > Ru . karniză ) , corniche , nice (= Sp. cornisa ; cf. Pg. cornija ), cornix ( cornic- ), a border, a contr. border (appar.) of coronix, a square frame (the ML. cornix, coronix being simulations of L. cornix, a crow), horn, etc. (defs. 1-6), cornet , a horn (bucorneter (kôr'net-ér), n. [ , a horn, a bugle, a paper in the form of a horn, an inkhorn, etc., cornet-stop (kôr'net-stop), n. In music , same as cornet1 , 1 ( c ). cornette (kôr-net'), n. [F., fem. dim. of corne , a horn: see horn, cornet .] In metal ., the little tube of gold left when the alloy of silver and gold taken from the cupel is rolled and boiled in nitric acid to remove the former metal. Also spelled cornet. -ist .] A player upon a cornet-à-pistons. corneule (kôr'nē-ül), n. [F. cornéule , corn-exchange (kôrn'eks-chanj"), п. A place or mart where grain is sold or bartered, and samples are shown and examined. [Eng.] (b) Same as cornet-à-pistons. (c) An organ-stop corn-factor (kôrn'faktor), n . One who traffics having from 3 to 5 pipes to each key, and giving loud and somewhat coarse tones: now rarely made. A mounted cornet is such a stop with its pipes raised upon a separate sound-board, so as to make its tone more prominent; an echo cornet is a similar stop, but of much more delicate quality, usually placed in the swell- organ. Also cornet- stop . (dt) A pedal reed-stop of 2- or 4-feet tone.- 2. A little cap of paper twisted at the end, in which retailers inclose small wares. -3. The square-topped academic cap.-4. ( a ) A woman's head-dre or a part of it, probably named from its angular or pointed shape, as the end or corner of the tippet of the chaperon in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. J. R. Planché. giving in grain by wholesale, or as an agent. [Eng.) corn-field (korn'fēld), n. In Great Britain, a field in which corn of any kind is growing; a grain-field; in the United States, a field of Indian corn or maize. corn-flag (kôrn'flag), n. The popular name of the plants of the genus Gladiolus , bearing red or white flowers, and much cultivated as orna- I never sawe my lady laye apart Her cornet blacke, in cold nor yet in heate, Sith fyrst she knew my grief was growen so greate. Surrey, Complaint. mental plants. corn-floor (kôrn'flor), n. A floor for corn, or for threshing corn or grain. Isa. xxi. 10. corn-flower (kôrn'flou"ėr), n. A flower or plant growing in grain-fields, as the wild poppy, and especially the bluebottle, Centaurea Cyanus . There be certain corn- flowers which come seldom or never in other places, unle they be set, but only amongst corn: as the blue-bottle, a kind of yellow mary gold, wild poppy, and fumitory. Bacon , Nat. Hist. IMG:content-1323.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] ed; specifically, the third or uppermost (Floric Cornice Construction, A os frieze. (See column .) When the crowning course of a wall is plain, it usually called a coping . IMG:content-1324.jpg:[blocks in formation] ger , gerere , bear.] Horned; corn-meter (kôrn'mē"tėr), n . One who mea- bearing horns; corniferous. Nature, in other cornigerous animals, hath placed the horns higher. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 19. corni muset, n. See cornemuse . corn in (kôrnin), n. [ Cornus +-in2.] A bit- superior officer.-2. The secretary or a istant of a magistrate; a clerk; a registrar. Oon Maximus, that was an officere Of the Prefectes, and his corniculere . corning (kôr'ning), n. [Verbal n. of corn1, v. t.] 1. The proce of salting and seasoning beef and pork for preservation.-2. The proce of granulating gunpowder. E. H. Knight. corni plume (kôr'ni-plöm), n. [L. cornu , = E. horn , + plum a , feather.] In ornith ., a plum i- corn; a tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, erectile or erected like a horn, as those upon the head of "horned" or "eared" owls. [Rare.] Cornish1 (kôr'nish), a. and n. [ Cornwall is a modification of AS. Corn - wealas , Cornwall, prop. the inhabi- tants of Cornwall, lit. 'Corn- Wales ,' wealas (repr. by mod. Wales ) being prop. pl. of wealh , a foreigner, esp. a Celt: see Welsh and walnut .) I. a . Pertaining to Cornwall, a county of Eng- land, forming its southwestern extremity, cele- brated for its mines, especially of tin and cop- per. Cornish bit. See bit1.- Cornish chough. (a) See chough. (b) In her ., same as aylet . - Cornish clay. Same as china - stone , 2. - Cornish crow, diamonds, hug, moneywort, salmon, steam-boiler, steam-engine, etc. See the nouns. II. n. The ancient language of Cornwall, a dialect of the Cymric or British branch of the Celtic languages. It became extinct as a spoken language about the end of the eighteenth cen- tury. cornish2 (kôr'nish), n. An obsolete or provin- Ten small pillars adjoyning to the wall, and sustaining Sandys, Travailes, p. 166. corni shed (kôr'nisht), a. [ her ., adorned with a cornice: said of any bearing that is capable of receiving one. as a Cornishman (kornish-man), n.; pl. Cornishmen (-men). [ I have told you that the Cornishmen kept their own Welsh language for many hundred years after this time. E. A. Freeman , Old Eng. Hist., p. 96. cornist (kôr'nist), n. [F. F. corniste, -iste : see horn and -ist .] A performer corn-juice (kôrn'jös), n. Whisky made from Indian corn; hence, whisky in general. [Slang, U. S.] corn-knife (kôrn'nīf), n. 1. A long-bladed knife, slightly curved and widening to the point, used for cutting standing Indian corn. corn-mill (kôrn'mil), n . 1. A mill for grind- ing corn. More generally called a grist - mill.- 2. A small mill with a runner and concave of iron, used for grinding Indian corn on the cob for feeding stock. corn-mint (kôrn'mint), n. See mint2. corn-moth (kôrn'môth), n. A small moth, the Tinea granella , exceedingly destructive to grain- Corn-moth ( Tinea granella ). (Cro shows natural size.) IMG:content-1325.png:[graphic] corn muset, n. A variant of cornemuse . corno di ba et to (kôr'nō dē bås-set'tō). [It.: for paring and removing corns. corn-land (kôrn'land), n. Land appropriated or suitable to the production of corn or grain. corn-law (kôrn'la), n. A legislative enactment relating to the exportation or importation of grain; specifically, in Eng . hist ., one of a series of laws extending from 1436 to 1842, regulating the home and foreign grain-trade of England. Until the repeal of the corn-laws, the grain-trade, both export and import, was the subject of elaborate and vary- ing legislation, which consisted in levying protective or prohibitory duties, or in imposing restrictive conditions, ment of exportation. After a prolonged agitation for the repeal of the corn-laws by the Anti-corn-law League (or- of Sir Robert Peel, pa ed an act for a large immediate ganized in 1839), Parliament in 1846, under the ministry reduction of the duty on imported grain, and providing for a merely nominal duty after 1849, which was subse- quently entirely removed. corn le (kôrn'les), a. [ corn-lift (kôrn'lift), n. A contrivance for rais- ing sacks of grain to the upper floors of a mill IMG:content-1326.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1327.jpg:[blocks in formation] corn-planter (kôrn'plan" tėr), n. A machine for planting Indian corn. It opens the ground to receive the seed, drops it in hills, and then throws back the soil and rolls it smooth. corn-plaster (kôrn'plaster), n. A small plas- ter, having a hole in the center, made of yel- low wax, Burgundy pitch, turpentine, and some- times with the addition of verdigris, applied to a corn on the foot, to promote its softening and removal. corn-pone (kôrn'pon), n. Indian-corn bread, made with milk and eggs, and baked in a pan. See pone. [Southern U. S.] corn-popper (kôrn'pop"ėr), n. A covered pan of woven wire, with a long handle, in which a particular kind of Indian corn is popped over a fire. See pop - corn . [U. S.] corn-poppy (korn pop i), n. See poppy. corn-rent (kôrn'rent), n. In Great Britain, a rent paid in corn instead of money, varying in amount according to the fluctuations of the price of corn. corn-rig (kôrn'rig), n. [ corn + rig1 , ridge.] A ridge or strip of growing barley or other grain. [Scotch.] It was upon a Lammas night, When corn - rigs are bonnie. corn-salad (kôrn's alad), n. The common name of Fedia or Valerian ell a olitoria, a plant eaten as a salad, found in grain-fields in Europe and rarely in America.