CORNET

noun a headdress.

2. cornet ·noun ·see coronet, 2.

3. cornet ·noun the standard of such a troop.

4. cornet ·noun a certain organ stop or register.

5. cornet ·noun a part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

6. cornet ·noun a square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

7. cornet ·noun an obsolete rude reed instrument (·ger. zinken), of the oboe family.

8. cornet ·noun a cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.

9. cornet ·noun a troop of cavalry;

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

10. cornet ·noun the lowest grade of commissioned officer in a british cavalry troop, who carried the standard. the office was abolished in 1871.

11. 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.