n. In music: Originally, a musical instrument of the oboe class, of crude construction and harsh tone.n. Same as cornet-à-pistons. An organ-stop having from 3 to 5 pipes to each key, and giving loud and somewhat coarse tones: now rarely made.n. A pedal reed-stop of 2-or 4-feet tone.n. A little cap of paper twisted at the end, in which retailers inclose small wares.n. The square-topped academic cap.n. A woman's head-dress or a part of it, probably named from its angular or pointed shape, as the end or corner of the tippet of the chaperon in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.n. That part of the head-dress worn in the seventeenth century that hung down beside the cheek; a flap, a pendent strip of lace, or the like. See pinner. Also called bugle-cap.n. In dressmaking, the shaping of a sleeve near the wrist: so called from its resemblance to what is known as trumpet-shape.n. Same as cornette.n. Milit.: A flag or standard.n. The officer of lowest commissioned grade in the cavalry, to whose charge this flag was confided: a term equivalent to ensign in the infantry.n. A company of cavalry, named in like manner from the standard carried at its head.n. Same as coronet, 6.To let the blood of (a horse).n. In botany, a hollow, horn-like growth or projection; a hood.