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An approach. [Obs.] The house has a corner arrival. H. Walpole.

r small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.

To fill with lies. [Obs.] "The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world." Shak.

Having two angles or corners.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

e and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore. Milton.

Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.] The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonson.

The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. "In one cantle of his law." Milton. Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak.

A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden.

Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

e the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each ch…

ete; entire. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. Le

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)

losed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.