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ˈwheat-corn Now rare.
[OE. hwǽtecorn = MHG. weiȥ(en)korn (G. weizenkorn), ON. hveitikorn (MSw. hvetekorn, etc.): see corn n.1]
1. A grain of wheat.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Ᵹenim hnutcyrnla & hwæte corn. a1175Cott. Hom. 241 Þis bread was imaced of ane hwete corne. 13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 102/4 But ȝif þat a whete-corn ffalle into þe eorþe lowe. c1440Alphabet of Tales 165 He vsid to putt whete-cornys in his ere, & he lernyd a white dowffe to stand opon his shulder & take þaim oute. 1526Tindale John xii. 24 Except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and deye, it bydeth alone. 1601Holland Pliny xxvii. xiii. II. 291 Little berries..of the bignesse of wheat corns. 1854Spencer in Brit. Q. Rev. July 140 Our own systems [of weights], both troy and avoirdupois, are derived primarily from wheat-corns.
†2. = wheat n. 1. Obs.
1425in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911) 108 Nother comyn herd ne sched herd com in the qwyte corn feld to the korn be lad awey. 1764Museum Rust. III. i. 1 The wheat-corn was remarkably backward, though it, in general, promised to be a good crop. |