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Indian corn
[Indian a. 2.]
The common name of Zea Mays, a North American graminaceous plant, or of the grain produced by it; not known in the wild state, but cultivated by the North American Indians at the time of the discovery of America; an important cereal in the United States and in the warmer parts of the world generally, to which its cultivation has extended. Also called maize, and in U.S. simply corn. Also attrib.
c1621W. Hilton Let. in Capt. Smith New Eng. Trials (Arb.) 261 Better grain cannot be then the Indian corne. 1630Winthrop Let. in New Eng. (1825) I. 379 Though we have not beef and mutton, &c. yet (God be praised)..our Indian corn answers for all. 1642in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1863) V. 219/2 Other poore people shalbe repayed..at the next Indian corne harvest. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) II. 56 He propounded it in his Council, that all the West-plantations..should this last Summer be planted with Indian-corn. a1738W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 209 We encampt near one of these Indian Corn Fields, where was excellent Food for our Horses. 1751J. Bartram Observations Pensilvania to Ontario 60 This repast consisted of 3 great kettles of Indian corn soop, or thin homony, with dry'd eels and other fish boiled in it. 1778in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1902) XXVI. 32 Went into winter quarters in Newport, in old empty houses..and the food worse,—little bread and that made of rice and Indian corn meal. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 242 Maize, or Indian corn, is planted in hillocks three feet apart. 1817Raffles Java (1830) I. 108 Indian corn is usually roasted in the ear. 1818F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xxviii. 324 The traveller..suddenly mounting a little rise, close to a poor cottage with its Indian corn patch..finds himself opposite to the Capitol of the Federal city. 1856Cottage Gardener 2 Dec. 140/2 Indian corn is bad food for poultry. 1888W. Whitman November Boughs 76 On the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen ‘pickaninnies’, eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk. 1964Cookbk. (Amer. Heritage) (1967) 163 Indian corn stew. |