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"As I told you, Bayliss, this corner is a favorite meeting place for Prescott and his fellow muckers From what I hear, they're going to leave town for a few weeks," replied Bayliss Yes; going out into the wilds on some sort of fishing jaunt I wish we knew their plans better than we do," murmured Bayliss Don't believe they know 'em themselves any too well," sneered Bert Dodge.

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  1. noun The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle: the four corners of a rectangle.
  2. noun The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner: sat by myself in the corner; the corner of one's eye.
  3. noun The place where two roads or streets join or intersect.
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  • Grass and weeds soon cover the roof, binding it together and keeping the rain out The door opens into a dark hall or chamber, which serves as a receptacle for rubbish of all kinds--fishing-nets, tools, skins, empty milk-pans, and the like; and in the corner is a roughly-built fireplace for boiling the milk and for cooking. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • In a corner is a queer-looking wax model of Daniel O'Connell addressing the crowd, and amongst a hundred little odds and ends spring flowers are peeping out. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
  • In the corner was a low bedstead, on which lay a tall man, with a long, gray beard, and a disagreeable, almost repulsive, countenance. —  The Telegraph Boy
  • Half a block ahead and around a corner was the apartment-house where she had acquaintances, and into the hall-way Jenny bolted, hoping to turn and slam the door into the blackguard's face, but, to her horror, the heavy portal refused to swing. —  A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike
  • In the corner was a lowboy. —  The Cat in Grandfather's House
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front ·  side ·  middle ·  wall ·  room ·  shadow ·  direction ·  area ·  row ·  street ·  section ·  hall

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corner:   corners ·  cornering ·  cornered
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French corne, corner, horn, from Vulgar Latin *corna, from Latin cornua, pl. of cornū, horn, point; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English corner, cornyer, from Old French cornier, corniere, cornere, courniere, corner, angle, French cornière, corner-gutter (later Middle Latin cornerium, corneria, a corner, neuter and feminine forms of adjective *cornerius, spelled corneirus, pertaining to an angle or corner), from corne (later Middle Latin corna), a corner, angle, literally a horn, a projecting point, from Latin cornu, a horn, a projecting point, end, extremity, etc., = Anglo-Saxon horn, English horn. Cf. Welsh cornel = Corn, cornal, a corner, from corn = English horn; Irish cearn, cearna, a corner; Anglo-Saxon hyrne, Middle English herne, hurne, huirne (= OFries. herne = Icelandic hyrna (cf. hyrning) = Danish hjörne = Swedish hörn), a corner, from horn, horn: see corn and horn. The L. term was angulus: see angle. The noun corner in the commercial sense (def. 9) is from the verb.
  2. from corner, n. Cf. cornered.
 

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