Cornet

[Fr., dim. of cor, a French horn, from Lat. cornu.] (Mus.) A sort of trumpet, shaped like a horn; a wind-instrument used in bra bands; an organ stop. "Israel played before the Lord...on cornets."-2 Sam. vi. 5. ( Mil .) Formerly a troop of horse, accompanied by a cornet-player, to act as trumpeter; the standard of a troop of horse. Cornel i a, in Mi ouri , a post-village of Johnson co. Cornelian, n . ( Min .) See CARNELIAN. Cornel i us, PETER VON, ( kor - nai'le -oos,) a celebrated German artist, B. at Dü eldorf, 1787. When only 19 years old, he was engaged to paint, with figures in chiaroscuro, the cupola of the old church of Neu , near Dü eldorf. After this, he proceeded to Frankfort, where he executed a series of designs illustrative of the Faust of Goethe. His reputation was now fast rising, when he proceeded to Rome, where he united himself with several kindred spirits, and commenced studying with a view to found a new school of German art. To accomplish this, fresco was the style adopted, and C. was commi ioned to paint the walls of Bartholdy, the Pru ian consul-general. The subjects he chose were, "Joseph Recognizing his Brethren," and "Joseph Inter--In preting the Dream of Pharaoh's Chief Butler," which were a decided succe , and excited general admiration. He now rose higher and higher in his profe ion, and left Rome, 1819. At Dü eldorf he remodelled the academy, and then had two spacious halls a igned him to paint, in the Glyptothek at Munich. In one of these, - the Hall of Heroes he represented, in colo al proportions, the leading events of the "Iliad"; in the other-the Hall of the Gods-he symbolized the Grecian mythology. These works were not completed till 1830, and are conceived and executed with such a grandeur of effect as to command universal homage. He became director of the Munich Academy, which, under him, rose to be a great school of art. D. 1867. Cornel i us Ne/pos, a Latin historian, in the reign of England, the junior officer of a troop of cavalry, who bears the standard; as, a cornet of dragoons. -A kind of conical head-dre formerly worn by women, and still to be seen among the female peasantry of Normandy and Bretagne, France. Fig . 689. WIFE OF A RICH FARMER. -A small cone of folded paper used by grocers, as, a cornet of figs. Cornet of a horse . The lowest part of the pastern, that runs around the (Normandy, France.) coffin, and is distinguished by the hair that joins and covers the upper part of the hoof.