CORNER, n. [See Horn and Grain.] 1. The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.2. The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.3. The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point. Hence, 4. An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.This thing was not done in a corner. Acts 26.5. Indefinitely any part; a part. They searched every corner of the forest. They explored all corners of the country.6. The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. Leviticus 21 and 19.Corner-teeth of a horse, the foreteeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old.
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