Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CORN'ER, n. [W. cornel, from corn, a point or projection, a horn; Corn. kornal; Arm. corn; Ir. cearna; Sw. hörn. See Horn and Grain. Qu. Heb. Ch. Syr. and Ar. קרון karan, to shoot.]

1. The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we met 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 xxvi.
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. – Lev. xxi. xix. Corner-teeth of a horse, the fore teeth 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. – Farrier's Dict.