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n.
A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
pl.
of Cornet-a-piston
a.
Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
n.
A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.
n.
A performer on the cornet or horn.
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A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
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An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.
n.
The standard of such a troop.
n.
See Coronet, 2.
n.
A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
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One who blows a cornet.
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A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
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A headdress
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A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
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A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.).
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A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
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The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
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A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
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A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
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The commission or rank of a cornet.
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