1. [n]  the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"
2. [n]  (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
3. [n]  an interior angle formed be two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room"
4. [n]  the point where two lines meet or intersect; "the corners of a rectangle"
5. [n]  a place off to the side of an area; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "he glanced out of the corner of his eye"
6. [n]  a remote area; "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"
7. [n]  the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; "the corners of a cube"
8. [n]  a projecting part that is corner-shaped; "he knocked off the corners"
9. [n]  a small concavity
10. [n]  a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner"
11. [n]  a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; "a corner on the silver market"
12. [v]  turn a corner; "the car corners"
13. [v]  force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
14. [v]  gain control over; "corner the gold market"

1. \Cor"ner\ (k?r"n?r), n. [OF. corniere, cornier, LL.
   cornerium, corneria, fr. L. cornu horn, end, point. See
   {Horn}.]
   1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle,
      either external or internal.
   2. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls
      which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
   3. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center;
      hence, any quarter or part.
            From the four corners of the earth they come.
                                                  --Shak.
   4. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way
      place; a nook.
            This thing was not done in a corner.  --Acts xxvi.
                                                  26.
   5. Direction; quarter.
            Sits the wind in that corner!         --Shak.
   6. The state of things produced by a combination of persons,
      who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or
      species of property, which compels those who need such
      stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a
      corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant]
   {Corner stone}, the stone which lies at the corner of two
      walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially,
      the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an
      edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or
      indispensable. ``A prince who regarded uniformity of faith
      as the corner stone of his government.'' --Prescott.
   {Corner tooth}, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's
      mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each
      side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle
      teeth and the tushes.
   

2. \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cornered} (-n?rd); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Cornering}.]
   1. To drive into a corner.
   2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
      embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
   3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be
      able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the
      shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
   

3. \Cor"ner\, n. (Association Football) [More fully {corner
   kick}.]
   A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post,
   allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball
   behind his own goal line.
   

The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). "Corners" in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the "corners of Moab" denotes the whole land of Moab. The "corner of a field" (Lev. 19:9; 23:22) is its extreme part, which was not to be reaped. The Jews were prohibited from cutting the "corners," i.e., the extremities, of the hair and whiskers running round the ears (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). The "four corners of the earth" in Isa. 11:12 and Ezek. 7:2 denotes the whole land. The "corners of the streets" mentioned in Matt. 6:5 means the angles where streets meet so as to form a square or place of public resort.

The corner gate of Jerusalem (2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chr. 26:9) was on the north-west side of the city.

Corner-stone (Job 38:6; Isa. 28:16), a block of great importance in binding together the sides of a building. The "head of the corner" (Ps. 118:22, 23) denotes the coping, the "coign of vantage", i.e., the topstone of a building. But the word "corner stone" is sometimes used to denote some person of rank and importance (Isa. 28:16). It is applied to our Lord, who was set in highest honour (Matt. 21:42). He is also styled "the chief corner stone" (Eph. 2:20; 1 Pet. 2:6-8). When Zechariah (10:4), speaking of Judah, says, "Out of him came forth the corner," he is probably to be understood as ultimately referring to the Messiah as the "corner stone." (See TEMPLE, SOLOMON'S ¯T0003612.)