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Coign is an older spelling of Quoin, and may refer to: Coign (architecture), masonry blocks at the corner of a wall Coign (gunnery), a wedge used in aiming
Coign
Masonry blocks at the corner of a wall
Quoins (/kɔɪn/ or /kwɔɪn/) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble
Quoin
Military exactions in Gaelic Ireland
Coign and livery or coyne and livery (Irish: coinmheadh is buannacht) in Gaelic Ireland was the free entertainment which a chief exacted from his subjects
Coign_and_livery
A quoin is a device used to lock printing type in a chase in letterpress printing. Quoins are pairs of wedges, facing opposite directions. A wrench or
Quoin_(printing)
Handling and firing a cannon
The operation of cannon required specialised crew and gunners, who were first enlisted by the Spanish in the 14th century. The nature of cannon operation
Cannon_operation
Broadly obsolete words that remain in idiomatic use
where "champ" is an obsolete precursor to "chomp", in current use coign, as in "coign of vantage" deserts, as in "just deserts", although singular "desert"
Fossil_word
Ancient English minced oath
is not known. It may be from Old French "bois de cuing", as Old French coign meant wedge, or peak of a helmet. Or it may be from Gaelic "biodag", the
Odds_bodkins
Variety of grape
doi:10.1111/1750-3841.13522. PMID 27741360. Ector BJ, Magee JB, Hegwood CP, Coign MJ (1996). "Resveratrol Concentration in Muscadine Berries, Juice, Pomace
Vitis_rotundifolia
1957 novel by Kyle Onstott
permission, Hammond and Charles Woodford, Blanche's brother, travel to the Coign plantation where Hammond purchases a "fightin' nigger", Ganymede (aka Mede)
Mandingo_(novel)
pit, stalls, private boxes, and a spacious gallery, from which latter “coign of vantage” an excellent view of the stage is afforded, while the tenants
Theatre_Royal,_Cork
design: the flat bottom was carvel-built and the sides were clinker-built. coign A wedge used to assist in the aiming of a cannon; an older form of "quoin"
Glossary of nautical terms (A–L)
Glossary_of_nautical_terms_(A–L)
All Latin and Greek roots beginning with G
inculpable, inculpate, inculpatory, mea culpa cune- wedge Latin cuneus coign, coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/A–G
Migratory passerine bird of the swallow family
the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle;
Western_house_martin
American-Canadian actress
1996 Never Too Late Eunice 1996 Goosebumps Grandma Rose 1996 Night of the Twisters Grandma Belle "Zephyr" Hatch 1999 Storm of the Century Roberta Coign
Helen_Hughes_(actress)
cunabula, incunable, incunabula, incunabular, incunabulum cuneus cune- wedge coign/coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus
List of Latin words with English derivatives
List_of_Latin_words_with_English_derivatives
One of the 18 zones of Indian Railways
Coorla(Kurla) stone and Kalyan brock and lime masonry for jams, piers and coigns. Chamfered and moulded arches were made of finely dressed Porebunder and
Western_Railway_zone
Former tenements in Edinburgh, Scotland
nests, bearing the same proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlet did in Macbeth's Castle. Of later years these
Luckenbooths
Movable type made out of wood
September 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015. "Coign". Colophon Foundry. Retrieved 19 November 2022. Coign is an extensive study of condensed forms based
Wood_type
Medieval Christian site in County Tipperary, Ireland
chapel was demolished in 1805. A Romanesque fragment survives: a sandstone coign with chevron carvings, similar to that at Clonmacnoise. Window heads and
St._Patrick's_Well,_Clonmel
Grade I listed quadrangular castle in Mid Suffolk, United Kingdom
and portcullis. The walls are built of flint cobbles with stone for the coigns and windows. The plan of the site is quadrilateral, almost square, the west
Wingfield_Castle
Town and borough in Surrey, England
1901 to 1903 Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), composer and suffragette – lived at Coign, Hook Heath Road from 1910 until her death. H. G. Wells (1866–1946), writer
Woking
All Latin and Greek roots beginning with C
inculpable, inculpate, inculpatory, mea culpa cune- wedge Latin cuneus coign, coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/C
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/C
American journalist (1851–1927)
(1909) Reminiscences of Mary S. Rice (1908) Platters and Pipkins (1908) The Coign of Vantage (1909) She also assisted Susan Wallace with the completion of
Mary_Hannah_Krout
2013. "The Choughs Public House". NHLE. Retrieved 28 August 2013. "The Coign". NHLE. Retrieved 28 August 2013. "The Court". NHLE. Retrieved 28 August
Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset
Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_South_Somerset
Honor society at the University of Virginia
Richmond" as well as "a real raven, stuffed, [which] looked down from a coign of the room." In 1924, architecture professor Edmund S. Campbell helped
Raven_Society
Sports ground
The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted." The
Antelope_Ground
Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage Rodolfo Amoedo – Más Notícias Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between
1895_in_art
Sess. 2. c. 6 5 December 1553 An Acte against counterfeiting of straunge Coigns, being current within this Realme, or of the Quene's Highnes Signe Manuall
List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1553
List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England_from_1553
p. 139. Foster 2012, p. 27. Stockwell 1909, pp. 9, 248–250. "About Us". Coign Church. 2012. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 15 July
List of places of worship in Woking (borough)
List_of_places_of_worship_in_Woking_(borough)
1918 film
Viron Albert Hall as Class Poet Richard Hattera as Aristocrat, aka Ned Coign Margaret Pitt as A Wife Mildred Cheshire as Frail Sister George Cooper as
The_Struggle_Everlasting
1565 battle
crossed the Blackwater with his army, to levy tribute in the old form of "coign and livery". Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, 1st Viscount Decies, chief of the district
Battle_of_Affane
Indian-born writer and artist
with cultural displacement and exile in North America. as Padma Perera Coigns of Vantage. Calcutta: Writer's Workshop, 1972. The Challenge of Indian Fiction
Padma_Hejmadi
Historic England, "Garden wall opposite to garden wall of No 1 (Mistral Coign), Beverley (1083953)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20
Listed buildings in Beverley (north area)
Listed_buildings_in_Beverley_(north_area)
Civil parish in County Clare, Ireland
church is on a small hillock in a green valley overlooking a stream. The coign stones at the churches angles have been removed, and it is said they were
Kilmacduane
Civil Parish in Suffolk, England
Cottage and Iona Flat) 1384332 Upload Photo Q26664177 Lydstep House and Coign II Constitution Hill 22 November 1971 TM5075175897 52°19′26″N 1°40′42″E
Listed_buildings_in_Southwold
Historic house in Saint Martin, Guernsey
threat of sanctions! The façade, built of grey granite with red granite coigns is of beautiful proportions. The house, all the outer walls of which are
Sausmarez_Manor
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Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from either of two places in northern France: Coignières in Seine-et-Oise or Cogners in Sarthe. This surname is well established in the southern states, where it is now borne mainly by African Americans.
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Girl/Female
Greek
Earth-lover. Demeter is the mythological Greek goddess of corn and harvest. She withdraws for the...
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Greek
Bee. Famous bearer: Melissa, Mythological princess of Crete transformed to a bee after learning...
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon Irish
Red haired.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Vision of God's Light
Girl/Female
Indian
Shadows at high Noon
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
True; Faithful
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Devotional Lamp
Boy/Male
Muslim
Judge. Inevitable. Unavoidable.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Emerald
Boy/Male
Sikh
Love for war, Fostered in war
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n.
A quoin.
n.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
n.
Alt. of Coigny
n.
The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.