ppl. a. [f. CORNER sb. + -ED2.]

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  1.  Having a corner or corners. (Frequently in composition, as three-cornered, sharp-cornered.)

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 10310. Cornered as a cheker quarre.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XV. lxxix. (1495), 519. A syx cornerd stone.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 93. Corneryd, angulatus.

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1551.  Recorde, Cast. Knowl. (1556), 111. Cornered bodies be most vnapt for to run.

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1592.  Wyrley, Armorie, 139. Whose cornerd shield was laid with skilfull blew.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 73. The indented creekes and cornered nouks [of Peloponnesus].

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1756.  Sir J. Hill, Herbal, v. 114. The leaves are cornered and smooth.

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1779.  T. Forrest, Voy. New Guinea, 9. A large four cornered sail.

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1817.  R. Jameson, Char. Min., 90. Sharp-cornered, as in quartz and calcedony. Blunt-cornered, as in common opal.

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  † 2.  Having (geometrical) angles. Obs.

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1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. xxx. Those iij. lines will make a triangle equally cornered to the triangle assigned.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. iv. (1611), 44. A cornered Line is framed of sundry lines meeting together cornerwise.

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  † 3.  Cornered cap: = CORNER-CAP. Obs.

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1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. 115. The cornered cappe, say these misterious fellows, doth signifie … the whole monarchy of the world, East, West, North, and South.

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1590.  Greenwood, Answ. Def. Read Prayers, 26. If yt be not necessarie, put such conueniency in your cornerd Capp, or surplus.

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c. 1640.  in Maidment, Sc. Pasquils (1868), 139. Will make the Pope curse his mishap, And Prelats wail their corner’d cap.

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1682.  N. O., Boileau’s Le Lutrin, IV. 75. His corner’d Cap (for fear of cold) on ’s Head.

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  4.  See CORNER v. 2, 3.

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