coign

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coign

(koin, kwoin)

n. & v.

Variant of quoin.

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coign

(kɔɪn) or

coigne

(Architecture) variant spellings of quoin

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Noun	1.	coign - expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase coigne, quoin wedge - something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
	2.	coign - the keystone of an arch coigne, quoin headstone, keystone, key - the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

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While putting on its armor against the assaults of the wind, this snow had neglected no coign of vantage.

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If one has a taste for that kind of thing the merest starting-point becomes a coign of vantage, and then by a series of logically deducted verisimilitudes one arrives at truth--or very near the truth--as near as any circumstantial evidence can do.

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It was not long before the seats on the dais were filled, while the tenants and guests of lesser importance had occupied all the coigns of vantage not reserved.

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These levies were welcomed by the local lords and people because they stabilised relationships within the region, and with the crown and its officials, and they replaced the nefarious system of coign and livery whereby men of war were billeted on the agricultural population.

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Seen from this American coign of vantage Europe is no longer the center of the circle of lands.

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No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.

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