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.
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.
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.
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