Also cornish. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To furnish with a cornice; fig. to crown or finish as with a cornice.
1744. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect. (1748), I. 123. Twelve marble-pillars … carved and cornished after the Doric and Ionic manner.
1803. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., I. 431. The whole work … stretched into a hundred volumes … would cornish the literary wainscotting of a five-and-twenty foot room.
1872. Blackie, Lays Highl., 131. A goodly temple, walled behind With crag precipitous … And by green birches corniced.
