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e 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.

ertaining 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.

Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. Cornish chough. See Chough. -- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

A loft for corn; a granary.

A cornemuse.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.