coign
/kɔɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
noun
A wedge used in typesetting.
noun
A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
noun
An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
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."