coign

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
    — 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
  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)
    — 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
  5. An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
    — South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east - west mountain chains
动词 v.
  1. To furnish with coigns. transitive
    — The angles were always coigned, and the arches turned with squared stone, brought from Caen in Normandy […]

词形变化

coigns plural coigne alternative coigns present,singular,third-person coigning participle,present coigned participle,past coigned past coigne alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
coign and livery coign of vantage

词源

词源 1
Variant of quoin.
词源 2
Variant of quoin.
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