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Definition of Coigns
1. coign [v] - See also: coign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coigns
Literary usage of Coigns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"... and those of Piddinghoe and Lewes, have been attributed to the peculiar
character of the material employed, and a desire to evade the use of coigns. ..."
2. A Treatise on Crystallography by William James Lewis (1899)
"The coigns p on the triad axes being now determined, it only remains to find the
points d at which two pairs of faces, such as (AA/) and (kid), ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"As in the case of that mineral the coigns of one cube project as pyramids on an
isosceles triangular base on the face of the other. ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"We may, therefore, speak of the " schild " as the three northern coigns or ...
The existence of these massive coigns* at the three tetrahedral corners has ..."
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