coign

/kɔɪn/

coign noun: a projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.

Noun

coign (plural coigns)

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 diligencec. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
- Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
The keystone of an arch.
A wedge used in typesetting.
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 parallel1922, Alfred Tutton, Crystallography and Practical Measurement
- Axes taken from corner to corner ( coign to coign is the correct terminology ) in a cube are such …1948, George Hamilton, Herbert Cooke, Geology for South African Students
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 chains1901, The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences

coign (third-person singular simple present coigns, present participle coigning, simple past and past participle coigned)

(transitive) To furnish with coigns.
- The angles were always coigned, and the arches turned with squared stone, brought from Caen in Normandy […]1773, The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 1, Francis Grose, page 7

மூலைக்கல்

ಚಾಚುಮೂಲೆ, ಕಟ್ಟಡದ ಹೊರಮೂಲೆ

this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!!:
They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign. —1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
The wall was intricately labored—lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, →ISBN, page 212:
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.2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, →ISBN, page 3:

Noun
plural	coigns
alternative form	coigne
Verb
third-person singular present	coigns
present participle	coigning
past participle	coigned
past	coigned

Variant of quoin.

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What does coign mean?: Coign means a projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
What is coign in Tamil?: Coign in Tamil is மூலைக்கல். See Coign meaning in Tamil.
How do you use coign in a sentence?: this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.
What part of speech is coign?: Coign can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce coign?: Coign is pronounced /kɔɪn/.
What is the plural of coign?: The plural of coign is coigns.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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