[kawr-net for 1; kawr-nit, kawr-net for 2–8] 
| 1. | Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family. |
| 2. | a small cone of paper twisted at the end and used for holding candy, nuts, etc. |
| 3. | a pastry cone, usually filled with whipped cream. |
| 4. | British. a conical wafer, as for ice cream; cone. |
| 5. | a large, white, winged headdress formerly worn by the members of the Sisters of Charity. |
| 6. | a woman's headdress, often cone-shaped, usually of delicate fabrics and having lappets of lace or other material, worn by women from the 14th to the 18th century. |
| 7. | a pennant or flag used for signaling in a navy. |
| 8. | (formerly) the officer who carried the colors in a troop of cavalry: the cornet of horse. |
| cor·net (kôr-nět') n.
[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of corn, horn, from Latin cornū; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
Cornet
Heb. shophar, "brightness," with reference to the clearness of its sound (1 Chr. 15:28; 2 Chr. 15:14; Ps. 98:6; Hos. 5:8). It is usually rendered in the Authorized Version "trumpet." It denotes the long and straight horn, about eighteen inches long. The words of Joel, "Blow the trumpet," literally, "Sound the cornet," refer to the festival which was the preparation for the day of Atonement. In Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word (keren) so rendered is a curved horn. The word "cornet" in 2 Sam. 6:5 (Heb. mena'an'im, occurring only here) was some kind of instrument played by being shaken like the Egyptian sistrum, consisting of rings or bells hung loosely on iron rods.
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