||Cor"net-Ó-pis`ton (k?r"n?t-?-p?s"t?n; F. k?r`n?`?p?s`t?n"), n.; pl. Cornets-Ó-piston. [F.] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
Cor"net*cy (k?r"n?t-s?), n. The commission or rank of a cornet.
Cor"net*er (k?r"n?t-?r), n. One who blows a cornet.
Cor"neule (k?r"n?l), n. [F., dim. of cornÚe the cornea.] (Zo÷l.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.
Corn"field` (k?rn"f?ld`), n. 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.
Corn"floor` (-fl?r`), n. A thrashing floor. Hos. ix. 1.
Corn"flow`er (-flou`?r), n. (Bot.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Cor"nic (k?r"n?k), a. Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).
Cor"nice (k?r"n?s), n. [F. corniche, It. cornice, LL. coronix, cornix, fr. L. coronis a curved line, a flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, Gr. &?;&?;&?;; akin to L. corona crown. sEE Crown, and cf. Coronis.] (Arch.) 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.
Cor"niced (k?r"n?st), a. Having a cornice.
Cor"ni*cle (k?r"n?-k'l), n. [L. corniculum, dim. of cornu horn.] A little horn. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Cor*nic"u*lar (-l?r), n. [L. cornicularius.] A secretary or clerk. [Obs.] Chaucer.