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The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Pertaining to the cornea.

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

Same as Carnelian.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. Sir T. Browne.

ce in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

The chief ornament. [Obs.] Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.

1 Having corners or angles.

With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.

h valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-à-piston. (c) A certain organ stop or register.

ument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

The commission or rank of a cornet.

One who blows a cornet.

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

A thrashing floor. Hos. ix. 1.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).