Meaning

A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone..

Definitions by Sense

1. A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
2. The keystone of an arch.
3. A wedge used in typesetting.
4. A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
5. An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
6. (architecture, transitive) To furnish with coigns.

Example Sentences

By many a dern and painful perch Of Pericles the careful search By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence

Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.

this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.

They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign. —

The wall was intricately labored—lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...

In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled coign like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower.

In both the orthogonal and clinographic projections the light rays joining the eye and crystal coigns (solid angles, corners at which three or more edges meet) are all parallel

Axes taken from corner to corner ( coign to coign is the correct terminology ) in a cube are such …

Word Forms

• coigns
• coigne
• coigning
• coigned

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Use coign when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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