"coign" meaning in English

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      "word": "coign and livery"
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  "etymology_text": "Variant of quoin.",
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      "form": "coigns",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses",
          "text": "Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!!",
          "text": "this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun",
          "text": "They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, page 212",
          "text": "The wall was intricately labored—lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, page 3",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone."
      ],
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          "corner",
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        ],
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          "angle",
          "angle"
        ],
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          "cornerstone",
          "cornerstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The keystone of an arch."
      ],
      "id": "en-coign-en-noun-t6XJ3Wzk",
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        [
          "keystone",
          "keystone"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A wedge used in typesetting."
      ],
      "id": "en-coign-en-noun-NQYqEf2V",
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        [
          "wedge",
          "wedge"
        ],
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          "typesetting",
          "typesetting"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Alfred Tutton, Crystallography and Practical Measurement",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, George Hamilton, Herbert Cooke, Geology for South African Students",
          "text": "Axes taken from corner to corner ( coign to coign is the correct terminology ) in a cube are such …",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)"
      ],
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          "crystallography"
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        {
          "ref": "1901, The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences",
          "text": "South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east - west mountain chains",
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        }
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        "An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)"
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      "id": "en-coign-en-noun-sf905Pb~",
      "links": [
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          "geology",
          "geology"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔɪn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪn"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "coin"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "quoin"
    }
  ],
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    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪn",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪn/1 syllable"
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    {
      "word": "coign and livery"
    },
    {
      "word": "coign of vantage"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses",
          "text": "Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!!",
          "text": "this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun",
          "text": "They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, page 212",
          "text": "The wall was intricately labored—lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, page 3",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "angle",
          "angle"
        ],
        [
          "cornerstone",
          "cornerstone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The keystone of an arch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keystone",
          "keystone"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A wedge used in typesetting."
      ],
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          "typesetting",
          "typesetting"
        ]
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Alfred Tutton, Crystallography and Practical Measurement",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, George Hamilton, Herbert Cooke, Geology for South African Students",
          "text": "Axes taken from corner to corner ( coign to coign is the correct terminology ) in a cube are such …",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)"
      ],
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          "crystallography",
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          "ref": "1901, The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences",
          "text": "South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east - west mountain chains",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔɪn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪn"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "coin"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "quoin"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "coigne"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coign"
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