| Cornet 1. (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) A certain organ stop or register. 4. (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to enclose small wares. 5. (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. 6. (n.) The standard of such a troop. 7. (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871. 8. (n.) A headdress 9. (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions. 10. (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century. 11. (n.) See Coronet, 2. Thesaurus Entries English horn, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, complex cone, concert flute, cone, conelet, conoid, cop, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, diapason, double-bell euphonium, dulciana, euphonium, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, funnel, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, helicon, horn, hunting horn, hybrid stop, ice-cream cone, key trumpet, koppel flute, larigot, lituus, lur, mellophone, melodia, mixture, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, ophicleide, orchestral horn, organ stop, piccolo, pine cone, plein jeu, pocket trumpet, posaune, post horn, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, sesquialtera, shawm, slide trombone, sliphorn, sousaphone, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, tenor tuba, tierce, tremolo, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, twelfth, unda maris, valve trombone, valve trumpet, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana |