Cornet

·noun A headdress.

II. Cornet ·noun ·see Coronet, 2.

III. Cornet ·noun The standard of such a troop.

IV. Cornet ·noun A certain organ stop or register.

V. Cornet ·noun A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

VI. Cornet ·noun A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

VII. Cornet ·noun An obsolete rude reed instrument (·Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

VIII. Cornet ·noun A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.

IX. Cornet ·noun A troop of cavalry;

— so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

X. Cornet ·noun The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

XI. Cornet ·noun 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.