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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CORNER, n. [See Horn and Grain.]
1. The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.
2. The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.
3. The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point. Hence,
4. An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.
This thing was not done in a corner. Acts 26.
5. Indefinitely any part; a part. They searched every corner of the forest. They explored all corners of the country.
6. The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. Leviticus 21 and 19.
Corner-teeth of a horse, the foreteeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a place off to the side of an area; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"
2: the point where two lines meet or intersect; "the corners of a rectangle"
3: an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room" [syn: corner, nook]
4: the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" [syn: corner, street corner, turning point]
5: the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; "the corners of a cube"
6: a small concavity [syn: recess, recession, niche, corner]
7: a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; "a corner on the silver market"
8: a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner" [syn: corner, box]
9: a projecting part where two sides or edges meet; "he knocked off the corners"
10: a remote area; "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"
11: (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone [syn: corner, quoin] v
1: gain control over; "corner the gold market"
2: force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape [syn: corner, tree]
3: turn a corner; "the car corners"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French cornere, from corne horn Date: 13th century 1. a. the point where converging lines, edges, or sides meet ; angle b. the place of intersection of two streets or roads c. a piece designed to form, mark, or protect a corner 2. the angular part or space between meeting lines, edges, or borders near the vertex of the angle <the southwest corner of the state> <the corners of the tablecloth>: as a. the area of a playing field or court near the intersection of the sideline and the goal line or baseline b. (1) either of the four angles of a boxing ring; especially the area in which a boxer rests or is worked on by his seconds during periods between rounds (2) a group of supporters, well-wishers, or adherents associated especially with a contestant c. the side of home plate nearest to or farthest from a batter <a fast ball over the outside corner> d. corner kick e. (1) the outside of a football formation (2) cornerback 3. a. a private, secret, or remote place <a quiet corner of New England> <to every corner of the earth> <dark corners of the mind> b. a difficult or embarrassing situation ; a position from which escape or retreat is difficult or impossible <was backed into a corner> 4. control or ownership of enough of the available supply of a commodity or security especially to permit manipulation of the price 5. a point at which significant change occurs — often used in the phrase turn the corner • cornered adjective II. adjective Date: 13th century 1. situated at a corner <the corner drugstore> 2. used or fitted for use in or on a corner <a corner table> III. verb Date: 1824 transitive verb 1. a. to drive into a corner <the animal is dangerous when cornered> b. to catch and hold the attention of especially to force an interview 2. to get a corner on <corner the market> intransitive verb 1. to meet or converge at a corner or angle 2. to turn a corner <the car corners well>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a place where converging sides or edges meet. 2 a projecting angle, esp. where two streets meet. 3 the internal space or recess formed by the meeting of two sides, esp. of a room. 4 a difficult position, esp. one from which there is no escape (driven into a corner). 5 a secluded or remote place. 6 a region or quarter, esp. a remote one (from the four corners of the earth). 7 the action or result of buying or controlling the whole available stock of a commodity, thereby dominating the market. 8 Boxing & Wrestling a an angle of the ring, esp. one where a contestant rests between rounds. b a contestant's supporters offering assistance at the corner between rounds. 9 Football & Hockey a free kick or hit from a corner of the pitch after the ball has been kicked over the goal-line by a defending player. 10 a triangular cut of gammon or ham. --v. 1 tr. force (a person or animal) into a difficult or inescapable position. 2 tr. a establish a corner in (a commodity). b dominate (dealers or the market) in this way. 3 intr. (esp. of or in a vehicle) go round a corner. Phrases and idioms: corner shop a small local shop, esp. at a street corner. just round (or around) the corner colloq. very near, imminent. Etymology: ME f. AF ult. f. L cornu horn

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Corner Cor"ner, n. (Association Football) [More fully corner kick.] A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Corner 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Corner 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(corners, cornering, cornered) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join. He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket... Write 'By Airmail' in the top left hand corner. N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet. ...a card table in the corner of the living room... The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net... Finally I spotted it, in a dark corner over by the piano. N-COUNT 3. The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it. Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n 4. The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street. We can't have police officers on every corner... He waited until the man had turned a corner. N-COUNT: usu with supp 5. A corner is a bend in a road. ...a sharp corner... = bend N-COUNT 6. In football, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch. N-COUNT 7. If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from. A police motor-cycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome... He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal. VERB: V n, V-ed 8. If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you. Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview. VERB: V n 9. If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area. (BUSINESS) This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas... = monopolize VERB: V n 10. If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way. Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears. VERB: V adv/prep 11. If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner. The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner. = imminent PHRASE: usu v-link PHR 12. If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner. My new place is just around the corner. PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v 13. If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should. Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter. PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval] 14. You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other. (WRITTEN) They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories... PHRASE: PHR n 15. If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of. The government is in a corner on interest rates... He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner. = in a tight spot PHRASE: N inflects, v-link PHR, PHR after v

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). "Corners" in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the "corners of Moab" denotes the whole land of Moab. The "corner of a field" (Lev. 19:9; 23:22) is its extreme part, which was not to be reaped. The Jews were prohibited from cutting the "corners," i.e., the extremities, of the hair and whiskers running round the ears (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). The "four corners of the earth" in Isa. 11:12 and Ezek. 7:2 denotes the whole land. The "corners of the streets" mentioned in Matt. 6:5 means the angles where streets meet so as to form a square or place of public resort.

The corner gate of Jerusalem (2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chr. 26:9) was on the north-west side of the city.

Corner-stone (Job 38:6; Isa. 28:16), a block of great importance in binding together the sides of a building. The "head of the corner" (Ps. 118:22, 23) denotes the coping, the "coign of vantage", i.e., the topstone of a building. But the word "corner stone" is sometimes used to denote some person of rank and importance (Isa. 28:16). It is applied to our Lord, who was set in highest honour (Matt. 21:42). He is also styled "the chief corner stone" (Eph. 2:20; 1 Pet. 2:6-8). When Zechariah (10:4), speaking of Judah, says, "Out of him came forth the corner," he is probably to be understood as ultimately referring to the Messiah as the "corner stone." (See TEMPLE, SOLOMON'S ?T0003612.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kor'-ner (miqtsoa`, pe'ah, pinnah; arche, gonia, akrogoniaios): In Ex 26:24; Eze 41:22; 46:21,22, miqtsoa`, "angle" is translated "corner"; pe'ah, "side," "quarter" and pinnah "corner," "front," "chief," are more frequently so translated, e.g. Ex 25:26; Le 19:9; Jer 9:26; 25:23; and Ex 27:2; 1Ki 7:34; Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16 ("corner-stone"); Jer 51:26. Other words are kanaph, "wing" (Isa 11:12; Eze 7:2); katheph, "shoulder" (2Ki 11:11 the King James Version, twice); pa`am, "foot" (Ex 25:12 the King James Version); zawiyoth, "corner-stones" (Ps 144:12; Zec 9:15, translated "corners"). For "corner" the Revised Version (British and American) has "side" (Ex 36:25), "corner-stone" (Zec 10:4), also for "stay" (Isa 19:13); instead of "teacher removed into a corner" (Isa 30:20), "be hidden," "hide themselves"; for "corners" we have "feet" (Ex 25:12; 1Ki 7:30); "ribs" (Ex 30:4; 37:27); for "divide into corners" (Ne 9:22), "allot after their portions"; for "into corners" (De 32:26), "afar"; the words to Israel (Isa 41:9) "called thee from the chief men 'atsilim thereof" are rendered by the Revised Version (British and American) "called thee from the corners thereof" (of the earth).

In the New Testament we have gonia ("angle," "corner"), "in the corners of the streets" (Mt 6:5), "the head of the corner" (Mt 21:42), "the four corners of the earth" (Re 7:1; 20:8); arche ("a beginning") (Ac 10:11; 11:5); "chief corner stone" (Eph 2:20; 1Pe 2:6), is a translation of akrogoniaios ("at the extreme angle").

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Angle, bend, elbow, crotch, knee, cusp. 2. Nook, recess, niche, retired place, secret place. 3. Part, quarter. II. v. a. (Colloq.) 1. Drive into a corner. 2. Nonplus, pose, confound, confuse, puzzle, perplex, put to a stand.

Moby Thesaurus

L, a corner on, aberrancy, aberration, absorb, alcove, angle, apex, asylum, bay, bear raid, bend, bias, bifurcation, bight, blind alley, bolt-hole, bother, bottle up, box, branching off, bull raid, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, cache, cant, capture, carrel, catch, chevron, circuitousness, coin, collar, complete a purchase, concealment, corner in, cornering, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crank, cranny, crook, crotchet, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cul-de-sac, curve, dark corner, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, declination, deflection, den, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, dilemma, discursion, disturb, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double a point, drift, drifting, dugout, elbow, ell, engross, engrossment, errantry, exclusive possession, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, extremity, fix, forestall, forestallment, fork, foxhole, funk hole, furcation, go around, hairpin, halt, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hog, hole, hook, impasse, indirection, inflection, inglenook, jam, knee, lair, make a buy, manipulation, monopolization, monopolize, monopoly, nab, niche, nook, obliquity, oriel, pererration, pickle, pitchhole, plight, point, procure, purchase, put out, quoin, raid, rambling, rebuy, recess, recession, refuge, regrate, repurchase, retreat, rigging, roomlet, round, round a bend, round a corner, round a point, sanctuary, scrape, secret place, seize, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, snuggery, stalemate, stand, standstill, stash, stop, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, take it all, tie up, trap, tree, trouble, turn, turn a corner, turning, twist, undercovert, variation, veer, vertex, wandering, warp, wash sale, washing, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag