Corn
[kɔːn] or [kɔrn]
Definition
(noun.) something sentimental or trite; 'that movie was pure corn'.
(noun.) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food.
(noun.) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times.
(noun.) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland).
(noun.) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal.
(noun.) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes.
(verb.) preserve with salt; 'corned beef'.
(verb.) feed (cattle) with corn.
Editor: Paula--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
(n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
(n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
(n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
(n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
(v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
(v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
(v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
(v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cereal grain.[2]. Maize, Indian corn.[3]. Horny excrescence.
v. a. [1]. Salt moderately, sprinkle with salt.[2]. Intoxicate, fuddle, muddle, inebriate, make drunk, make tipsy.
Typed by Carlyle
Definition
n. a grain or kernel: seeds that grow in ears as wheat rye &c.: grain of all kinds.—v.t. to form into grains; to sprinkle with salt in grains: to salt.—ns. Corn′-ball (U.S.) a ball of popped corn sweetened with white of egg; Corn′-brand′y spirits made from grain; Corn′-bee′tle a small beetle the larva of which is very destructive to grain; Corn′brash a member of the Lower Oolites (see Oolite); Corn′-cake (U.S.) a cake made of Indian-corn meal; Corn′-chand′ler a dealer in corn; Corn′-cob the elongated woody receptacle constituting the ear of maize; Corn′-cock′le a tall beautiful weed with large purple flowers common in corn-fields; Corn′-crake one of the true rails with characteristic cry frequenting corn-fields.—adj. Corned granulated; salted.—ns. Corn′-exchange′ a mart where grain is sampled and sold; Corn′-fac′tor a wholesale dealer in corn; Corn′-field a field in which corn is growing; Corn′-flag the popular name of plants of genus Gladiolus; Corn′-flour the name applied to the finely-ground flour of maize or Indian corn; Corn′-flow′er a well-known composite weed of corn-fields having a beautiful deep azure flower; Corn′-fly Corn′-moth insects very destructive to corn; Corn′ing-house a place where corn is granulated; Corn′-land ground suitable for growing corn; Corn′-law a law made for the restriction and regulation of the trade in corn: esp. in pl. (in England) laws that restricted the importation of corn by imposing a duty repealed in 1846; Corn′-loft a granary; Corn′-mar′igold a chrysanthemum common in corn-fields; Corn′-mē′ter an official measurer of corn; Corn′-mill a mill for grinding corn; Corn′-pars′ley a European grain-field flower (Petroselinum segetum); Corn′-pipe a pipe made by slitting the joint of a green stalk of corn; Corn′-popp′y the common red poppy a troublesome weed growing in corn-fields; Corn′-rent a fluctuating rent paid in corn not money; Corn′-rig (Scot.) a ridge in a corn-field; Corn′-sal′ad a genus of humble annual weeds found in corn-fields of which some are used as spring salads; Corn′stone a kind of mottled limestone often concretionary usually occurring in those systems which are largely composed of reddish sandstones; Corn′-van a machine for winnowing corn; Corn′-weev′il a small insect very destructive to stored grain.—adj. Corn′y like corn produced from corn: (slang) tipsy.—Corn-cob pipe a tobacco-pipe with the bowl made of the cob of Indian corn.—Corn in Egypt an expression signifying abundance in reference to Gen. xlii. 2.
n. a small hard growth chiefly on the toe or foot resulting from an increase of thickness of the cuticle caused by excessive pressure or friction on the part.—adj. Cor′neous horny.—n. Corn′-plas′ter a remedial plaster applied to a corn.—adj. Corn′y of or pertaining to corns: horny.—Tread on one's corns to injure one's feelings.
Checker: Pamela
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of husking pied ears of corn, denotes you will enjoy varied success and pleasure. To see others gathering corn, foretells you will rejoice in the prosperity of friends or relatives.
To dream of passing through a green and luxurious corn-field, and seeing full ears hanging heavily, denotes great wealth for the farmer. It denotes fine crops and rich harvest and harmony in the home. To the young it promises much happiness and true friends, but to see the ears blasted, denotes disappointments and bereavements. To see young corn newly ploughed, denotes favor with the powerful and coming success. To see it ripe, denotes fame and wealth. To see it cribbed, signifies that your highest desires will be realized. To see shelled corn, denotes wealthy combines and unstinted favors. To dream of eating green corn, denotes harmony among friends and happy unions for the young.
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Examples
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was out on his pony yesterday, looking at our corn. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Here I walked on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near harvest, and the corn rising at least forty feet. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A very few words will sufficiently explain all that I have to say concerning the other three branches of the corn trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Pasquale