the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
2.
the space between two converging lines or surfaces near their intersection; angle: a chair in the corner of the room.
3.
a projecting angle, esp. of a rectangular figure or object: He bumped into the corner of the table.
4.
the point where two streets meet: the corner of Market and Main Streets.
5.
an end; margin; edge.
6.
any narrow, secluded, or secret place.
7.
an awkward or embarrassing position, esp. one from which escape is impossible.
8.
Finance. a monopolizing or a monopoly of the available supply of a stock or commodity to a point permitting control of price (applied only when monopoly price is exacted).
9.
region; part; quarter: from every corner of the empire.
10.
Surveying.
a.
the point of intersection of the section lines of a land survey, often marked by a monument or some object, as a pipe that is set or driven into the ground. Compare section(def. 5).
b.
a stake, tree, or rock marking the intersection of property lines.
11.
a piece to protect the corner of anything.
12.
Baseball.
a.
any point on the line forming the left or right boundary of home plate: a pitch on the corner.
b.
the area formed by the intersection of the foul line and the outfield fence.
13.
Boxing.
a.
the immediate area formed by any of the four angles in the ring.
b.
one of the two assigned corners where a boxer rests between rounds and behind which the handlers sit during a fight.
The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle: the four corners of a rectangle.
The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner: sat by myself in the corner; the corner of one's eye.
Sports Any of the four angles of a boxing or wrestling ring where the ropes are joined.
Baseball Either side of home plate, toward or away from the batter.
A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas"(George B. Merry).
The place where two roads or streets join or intersect.
Sports Any of the four angles of a boxing or wrestling ring where the ropes are joined.
Baseball Either side of home plate, toward or away from the batter.
A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas"(George B. Merry).
A threatening or embarrassing position from which escape is difficult: got myself into a corner by boasting.
A remote, secluded, or secret place: the four corners of the earth; a beautiful little corner of Paris.
A part or piece made to fit on a corner, as in mounting or for protection.
A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas"(George B. Merry).
v.
cor·nered, cor·ner·ing, cor·ners
v.
tr.
To furnish with corners.
To place or drive into a corner: cornered the thieves and captured them.
To form a corner in (a stock or commodity): cornered the silver market.
v.
intr.
To come together or be situated on or at a corner.
To turn, as at a corner: a truck that corners poorly.
adj.
Located at a street corner: a corner drugstore.
Designed for use in a corner: a corner table.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French corne, corner, horn, from Vulgar Latin *corna, from Latin cornua, pl. of cornū, horn, point; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
c.1280, from O.Fr. corniere, from corne "horn, corner," from V.L. *corna, from L. cornua, pl. of cornu "projecting point, end, horn" (see horn). Replaced O.E. hyrne. To corner (v.) "turn a corner," as in a race, is 1860s; meaning "drive (someone) into a corner" is Amer.Eng. 1824. Commercial sense is from 1836.
College Corner, OH (village, FIPS 16700) Location: 39.56780 N, 84.81258 W Population (1990): 379 (149 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45003
Sprouses Corner, VA Zip code(s): 23936
Bliss Corner, MA (CDP, FIPS 6170) Location: 41.60527 N, 70.94305 W Population (1990): 4908 (2164 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Tysons Corner, VA (CDP, FIPS 79952) Location: 38.91865 N, 77.23175 W Population (1990): 13124 (7051 housing units) Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Tillmans Corner, AL (CDP, FIPS 76320) Location: 30.58552 N, 88.19134 W Population (1990): 17988 (6898 housing units) Area: 54.9 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
Myers Corner, NY (CDP, FIPS 49363) Location: 41.59713 N, 73.86584 W Population (1990): 5599 (1753 housing units) Area: 11.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Moncks Corner, SC (town, FIPS 47275) Location: 33.19536 N, 79.99904 W Population (1990): 5607 (2170 housing units) Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Fussels Corner, FL (CDP, FIPS 25125) Location: 28.05391 N, 81.86072 W Population (1990): 3840 (1646 housing units) Area: 18.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Carl's Corner, TX (town, FIPS 12895) Location: 32.08525 N, 97.04488 W Population (1990): 94 (36 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
West College Corner, IN (town, FIPS 82556) Location: 39.56960 N, 84.81930 W Population (1990): 686 (308 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Cor"ner\ (k?r"n?r), n. [OF. corniere, cornier, LL. cornerium, corneria, fr. L. cornu horn, end, point. See Horn.]1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. 2. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner. 3. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part. From the four corners of the earth they come. --Shak. 4. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook. This thing was not done in a corner. --Acts xxvi. 26. 5. Direction; quarter. Sits the wind in that corner! --Shak. 6. 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. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." --Prescott. Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.
Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cornered (-n?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cornering.]1. To drive into a corner. 2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument. 3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Horn\, n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha['u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ?, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. Carat, Corn on the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cornet, Cornucopia, Hart.]1. A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed. 2. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout. 4. (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). 5. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as: (a) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. "Wind his horn under the castle wall." --Spenser. See French horn, under French. (b) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." --Mason. (c) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See Cornucopia. "Fruits and flowers from Amalth[ae]a's horn." --Milton. (d) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. "Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David]." --1 Sam. xvi. 13. (e) The pointed beak of an anvil. (f) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. (g) (Arch.) The Ionic volute. (h) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. (i) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. (j) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. "Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar." --1 Kings ii. 28. 6. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. --Thomson. 7. (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx. --Milton. 8. The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn. 9. (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation. --Ps. xviii. 2. 10. An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold's horn." --Shak. Horn block, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called horn plate. Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] --Shak. Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below). Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. --Gray. Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. Horn shell (Zo["o]l.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera. Horn silver (Min.), cerargyrite. Horn slate, a gray, siliceous stone. To haul in one's horns, to withdraw some arrogant pretension. [Colloq.] Toraise, or lift, the horn (Script.), to exalt one's self; to act arrogantly. "'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?" --Milton. To take a horn, to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]
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