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th 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.

rument, 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).

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

Having a cornice.

A little horn. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A secretary or clerk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Horned; having horns. Dr. H. More.

A small hornlike part or process.

pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age.(See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

Producing horns; forming horn.

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

Converted into horn; horny.

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.