cornn.1
/kɔːn/, U.S. /kɔrn/ I. gen. A grain, a seed.
1. † b. spec. One of the roundish particles into which gunpowder is formed by the corning or granulating process; a grain of corn-powder. Obsolete. Cf. corn v. 1.† c. Kind or size of ‘grain’. Obsolete.
a. gen. A small hard particle, a grain, as of sand or salt. In Old English and modern dialect. (In literary use in 16–17th centuries, chiefly translating Latin grānum.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot
cornc888
grotc888
prickleOE
prickOE
pointc1300
grain1377
hair1377
motec1390
twynt1399
mitec1400
tarec1405
drop1413
ace?1440
tittlea1450
whita1450
jot1526
Jack1530
plack1530
farthingc1540
minima1585
scintil1599
atom1626
scintillation1650
punct1653
doit1660
scintilla1674
rap1792
haet1802
dottle1808
smiggot1823
hooter1839
heartbeat1855
pick1866
filament1868
hoot1878
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle > hard and round
cornc888
grainc1290
kernelc1450
cornel1590
sand1596
granule1652
kern1753
parvule1887
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. vii. §4 Swa fela welena swa þara sondcorna beoþ be þisum sæclifum.
a1000 Runic Poem (Gr.) 9 Hægl byþ hwitust corna.
c1000 Ags. Ps. cxxxviii. 16 [cxxxix. 18] Hi beoð ofer sand corn sniome manige.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 233 Hit behoueþ þet þis flour habbe wyþinne þri cornes of gold..þe þri cornes of þe lilye.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 599 [Of poultry] Cornes [L. grana] that wol under growe her eye, That but thou lete hem oute, the sight wol die.
1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 38/2 He offerred 3 cornes of incense [cf. L. grana thuris] to the sacryfyce of the ydoles.
a1571 J. Jewel On Thess. (1611) 132 We must vnderstand this authoritie with a corne of salt [L. cum grano salis] otherwise it may bee vnsauorie).
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxviii. 611 When you haue..brused it, and brought it into small cornes.
1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §vi Hee that cannot make one spire of grasse, or corne of sand, will yet be framing of Worlds.
1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 293 Having put a corn of Salt in the Child's Mouth.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Corn, a grain, or particle, a ‘corn of tobacco’, a ‘corn of powder’, a ‘corn of rice’.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Corn, a particle of anything..as a corn of sugar-candy, black pepper, brimstone.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > grain of
corn1595
powder corn1612
grain1667
1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile Argt. Sir Richard mayntained the fight, till he had not one corne of powder left.
1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 343 A Train of Powder..takes fire from corn to corn, till at last the Barrel is burst in sunder.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 65 The harder the Corns of Powder are in feeling, by so much the better it is.
1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 583 The soldiers..else would not have had a corn of powder..in case of an action.
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1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 174 The Ale serves..to harden the Corn of the Salt.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 94 If they intend a large Corne [of salt]..they put into it [sc. the brine] about..a quart of the strongest and stalest Ale.
2. spec. The small hard seed or fruit of a plant; now only with contextual specification or defining attribute, as in barley-corn, pepper-corn, etc.
a. A seed of one of the cereals, as of wheat, rye, barley, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > a single grain
cornc1000
grainc1380
pickle1552
rice grain1763
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 24 Hwætene corn [1382 Wyclif corn of whete; so 1611; 1881 grain of wheat] wunað ana buton hyt fealle on eorþan & sy dead.
a1175 Cotton Hom. 241 Þis bread was imaced of ane hwete corne.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 191 Ha breken þe eares bi þe wei & gnudden þe cornes bitweonen hare honden.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 62 Þe weiȝte of þre cornys of wheete.
1496 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 5 Every Sterling to be of the Weight of xxxij Corns of Wheat that grew in the Midst of the Ear.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv The cornes be very great & white, and it is the best barley.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 The ant..was occupied in gathering wheat cornes together.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 63 Suppose that 1 Corn produces the first Year 50 Corns.
c1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 11 The ears had ninety corns each on an average.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 185 (Malting) A sprouted corn or two.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 185 (Malting) Broken and bruised corns.
b. The seed or fruit of various other plants, as of an apple, a grape, pepper, coffee, etc.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun]
corna700
kernelc1000
seedOE
grain1377
pippina1382
acinusa1398
acine1597
seedling1675
vegetable egg1675
seedlet1754
pip1773
oilseed1887
a700 Epinal Gloss. 790 Ptysones, berecorn berendæ.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xv Se æppel..monig corn oninnan him hæfð.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 74 Ȝenim..xvii pipor corn gnid to somne.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 31 The kyngdam of heuenes is like to a corn of seneuey.
1486 Bk. St. Albans C v a Take..the cornes of sporge and grinde it weell.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 24 Juniper whereon are manye berryes or cornes.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxii. 108 A few cornes of blacke pepper.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 98 Swallow five or six corns of White Pepper.
1876 S. D. Scott To Jamaica & Back 104 Each [coffee] berry contains two corns.. The corns slide through into other troughs of water.
II. spec. The fruit of the cereals.
3. † b. plural. Kinds of corn; also corn-stuffs. Obsolete.
a. collective singular. The seed of the cereal or farinaceous plants as a produce of agriculture; grain.As a general term the word includes all the cereals, wheat, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, etc., and, with qualification (as black corn, pulse corn), is extended to leguminous plants, as pease, beans, etc., cultivated for food. Locally, the word, when not otherwise qualified, is often understood to denote that kind of cereal which is the leading crop of the district; hence in the greater part of England ‘corn’ is = wheat n., in North Britain and Ireland = oats; in the U.S. the word, as short for Indian corn n., is restricted to maize (see 5).
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun]
corn871
curnsa1400
frumentc1440
stuff1461
victual1473
plough-meat1580
fourment1601
breadstuff1793
white victual1799
cereal1832
corn-chandlery1883
mutt-eye1946
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun]
corn871
grainc1315
frumentc1440
stuff1461
871–89 Charter Ælfred in Old Eng. Texts 452 He geselle of ðem londe xxx.…cornes eghwelce gere to hrofescestre.
898 Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 895 Hie wæron be numene ægðer ge þæs ceapes ge þæs cornes.
1044 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) On ðisum gere wæs..corn swa dyre swa nan man ær ne gemunde.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 172 Satan is ȝeorne abuten þe for to ridli þe ut of mine corne.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2159 Iacob for-ðan Sente in-to egipt to bringen coren.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxv. (Tollem. MS.) Sum corne þryueþ in on grounde, and fayleþ in a noþere.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 24 b All sortes of pulse corne, as Pease, Beanes, Tares, and Fitches.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. vii. 668 Grounds that are to be sowen with corne, that is to say with rie corne, maslin, some kind of barlie, Turkie corne & such others whereof bread is made, and especially..wheate corne.
1767 Jrnl. Voy. H.M.S. Dolphin 143 Rice is the only corn that grows in the island.
1774 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1776) III. 62 Wheat..so lately has it been cultivated in Lancashire, that it has scarcely yet acquired the name of corn, which in general is applied only to barley, oats, and rye.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Corn, the name commonly given to oats, before they are ground.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 14 An ancient churl,..Went sweating underneath a sack of corn.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Black coorn, beans; dark pulse.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Corn, oats.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Corn,..2. wheat.
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?1543 T. Phaer tr. N. de Houssemaine Treat. Pestilence ii, in tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe Wheate is best among all other cornes, euen as wyne among all other licours.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Treatise 140 Cornes, sic as pease, beanes, sould be sawin zearlie.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) vii. 317 Malta..a barren place..for their Corns and Wines come daily by Barks from Sicilia.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 184 For the Provision of the Army in Corns, Fewel, Viands.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry i. vi Corns [L. frumenta] may also be kept in pits.
c. colloquial (originally U.S.). Something ‘corny’ (see corny adj.1 1c); spec. old-fashioned or inferior music. Also attributive.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity
weariness1560
insipid1699
prose1743
bore1778
insipidity1822
ennui1849
yawn1889
palaver1920
bind1930
binder1930
corn1936
yawner1942
ho-hum1963
vicarage tea party1973
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > inferior music
schmaltz1934
corn1936
1936 Variety 24 June 63/1 The B.B.C. doesn't understand..that the great English public loves corn, loves a waltz.
1937 L. Feather in Radio Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Corn, old-fashioned style; out-of-date idiom and technique in jazz. Hence corny or cornfed applied to musicians and their style.
1946 M. Sandoz in Amer. Speech 21 234/1 The seed catalog [from c 1890 to 1910]..featured a great variety of seed corn..interspersed with short jokes and riddles, sometimes even cartoons. The jokes were all time-worn and over-obvious and were called corn catalog jokes or corn jokes, and any quip or joke of that nature was called corny.
1952 Economist 9 Feb. 339/2 Governor Stevenson..declines to indulge in the political ‘corn’ which is supposed to get votes.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xviii. 233 Other jazz bands, dance bands, corn bands.
1956 Times 6 Aug. 8/6 I know now that ‘O by jingo, O by gosh, by gee!’ was not jazz, but the merest corn.
1958 Spectator 18 July 115/2 Specialising in exposures, murder, and ‘corn’.
1968 H. McCloy Mr. Splitfoot (1969) xvii. 192 I don't believe that what I feel now is inverted corn. It's purely selfish.
4. † b. plural. Corn crops, cereals. Obsolete.† c. A plant of one of the cereals; a corn-plant, corn-stalk. Obsolete. rare.
a. Applied collectively to the cereal plants while growing, or, while still containing the grain.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn
cornc897
vetchc1300
grainc1315
blade1553
Pennsylvania corn1739
cereal1868
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care lii Ðone æcer..ðe stent on clænum lande, & bið unwæsðmbære oððe unȝefynde corn bringð oððe deaf.
a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1103 Ægðer ge on corne and eac on eallon treow wæstman.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 107 Þe blostme þe cumeð of coren of eorðe and of treuwe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 4702 Na corne ne grisse on erþe sprange.
1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. div/2 Corne that is grene, bladum.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xv. 5 Samson..brent ye stoukes and the stondinge corne.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iv. 31 Her Foes shake like a Field of beaten Corne . View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 368 As o'er the fertile field Billows the ripen'd corn.
1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 69 Sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
1861 Times 4 Oct. 7/4 The corn is all cut, with the exception of a few late pieces.
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxvii. 51 Locustis ere bestis þat fleghis and etis kornes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6840 Your land yee sal sau seuen yeir, And scer þar-of your corns seir.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxiv. 255 There ben grete Pastures, but few Coornes [Fr. poy des blez].
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxxi. 640 To gather and bring home theyr cornes, and some to threshe and to fanne.
1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. Cvv Wylde cicorie, growyng in the cornes.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert I in Regiam Majestatem 35 Gif..the cornes in the fieldis happens to be brunt and consumed.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry xi. ii During these days the corns must be weeded.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 299 The practice of weeding their corns is not so carefully observed among the moderns.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > individual plant
grassOE
cornc1384
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 134 And many flowte and liltyng horne And pipes made of grene corne.
1590 T. Watson Eglogue vpon Death Walsingham sig. C Now in the fields each corne hang down his head.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 67 Playing on pipes of corne . View more context for this quotation
5.
a. Originally U.S. Maize or Indian corn, Zea Mays; applied both to the separated seeds, and to the growing or reaped crop. corn on the cob: green maize suitable for boiling or roasting; maize cooked and eaten on the cob.Wheat, rye, barley, oats, etc. are in U.S. called collectively grain. Corn- in combinations, in American usage, must therefore be understood to mean maize, whereas in English usage it may mean any cereal; e.g. a cornfield in England is a field of any cereal that is grown in the country, in U.S. one of maize.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > maize plants
maizea1544
Indian wheat1578
Guinea wheat1598
corn1608
sweet corn1646
Virginia wheat1651
soft corn1751
zea1760
popcorn1838
pod corn1884
pod maize1904
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > maize dishes
posole1699
succotash1751
Tom Fuller1820
agidi1853
corn on the cob1867
nixtamal1896
ogi1957
1608 J. Smith Wks. (1884) 9 It pleased God..to moue the Indians to bring vs Corne, ere it was halfe ripe.
1634 Rel. Ld. Baltimore's Plantation (1865) 17 Their ordinary diet is Poane and Omine, both made of Corne.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 40 A Fleet of Pereagoes laden with Indian Corn, Hog, and Fowls, going to Cartagene... Here..we stock'd our selves with Corn, and then went.]
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 359 How happy he [an Indian] should be in the Company of their God, where would be no want of Corn, or Wood, or any Thing.
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. xxvi. 247 The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 43 Everything eats corn, from slave to chick.
1867 T. F. De Voe Market Assistant 414 What usually makes a bushel: Sixty pounds of wheat, Irish Potatoes, Beans, or clover-seed;..seventy pounds of corn on the cob.
1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 27 Nov. 6/1 The corner in November corn is still on.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 374/2 A form of dressing served with..corn on the cob.
b. elliptical. Corn-whiskey. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1820 Chillicothe (Ohio) Supporter 5 July If we go to town,..we are invited to try a little corn as usual.
1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) v. 54 Let me git one o' these book-larnt fellers over a bottle of ‘old corn’.
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 1033/1 Jessamyne is a shrewish bustling woman, a notable maker and peddler of ‘corn’ i.e., home-distilled spirits.
6. With defining attribute as amelcorn n., bread corn n., broom corn n., Indian corn n., popcorn n., seed corn n., turkey-corn n. at turkey n.2 Compounds 2, etc.
Phrases
P1. †new ale in corns: ? ale as drawn off the malt: cf. corny adj.1 2
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a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 378 And blessed her wyth a cup Of new ale in cornes.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 491/2 Then would those heretikes by their willes, that in stede of wyne and water, men woulde consecrate new ale in cornes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ale newe, or new ale in the cornes, mustum.
P2. corn in Egypt: said of a plentiful supply of anything to be had in the proper quarter: in allusion to Genesis 42:2.
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1823 C. Lamb Let. 10 July (1935) II. 393 There is corn in Egypt, while there is cash at Leadenhall.
P3. to measure another's corn by one's own bushel: see bushel n.1 2c.
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1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 65 He must not measure his neighbour's corn by his own bushel.
P4. to acknowledge (admit, confess) the corn: to confess or acknowledge a charge, imputation, failure, etc. (originally U.S.).
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (intransitive)] > acknowledge failure
to acknowledge (admit, confess) the corn1839
1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 15 Apr. 2/1 We were certain it was not Dutch, and was in error in saying it was Scotch, and ‘acknowledge the corn’.
1840 Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 14 July David Johnson acknowledged the corn, and said that he was drunk.
1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 16 Mar. Your honor, I confesses the corn. I was royally drunk.
1846 N.Y. Herald 27 June The Evening Mirror very naively comes out and acknowledges the corn.
1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 152 The old Sherry admitted the corn, turned over and slept on it.
1883 G. A. Sala Living London 97 (Farmer) Mr. Porter acknowledges the corn as regards his fourteen days' imprisonment, and is forgiven by his loving consort.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 54 I acknowledge ‘the corn’ myself, as they say across the Atlantic.
1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 136 When anybody teaches me any tricks, I acknowledge the corn an' take off my hat.
1948 C. E. Funk Hog on Ice 38 To acknowledge the corn..means to admit the losing of an argument, especially in regard to a detail; to retract; to admit defeat.
P5. Other proverbial expressions.
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1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. lixv The corne in an other mans grounde semeth euer more fertyll and plentifull then doth oure owne.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div Al this wynd shakes no corne.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. vii. 348 Mankind is negligent in improving his Observation, he never rubs the Corn out of the Ear.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew A great Harvest of a little Corn, a great adoe in a little Matter.
Compounds
(Almost exclusively in senses 3 – 5.) C1. attributive.
a. Of or pertaining to corn or grain, or, in U.S., to maize.
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c1420 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 233 In a good corne contrey rest the.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xliv. 2 Put my cup..in the sackes mouth of the yongest, and his corne money. View more context for this quotation
1798 W. Lorimer (title) A Letter to the Corn Committee, on the Importation of Rough Rice, as a Supplement of Wheat Flour.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 302 The Corn tribe..such as Wheat, Barley, Oats, Maize, Rice, and Guinea Corn.
1832–52 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 416 Until the season was too far advanced for bringing supplies from the great corn markets in the north of Europe.
1842 Act 5 & 6 Victoria 2 Sess. c. 14 Any Corn Returns believed fraudulent may be omitted in the Computation.
1893 N.E.D. at Corn Mod. Market Report, Corn Averages.
b. Consisting of grains; granulated.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 101 Corn Emery, used for sharpening cutting burnishers.
C2. General combinations.
a. Attributive.
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corn-basket n.
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1860 ‘E. Wetherell’ & ‘A. Lothrop’ Say & Seal I. xxix. 368 In one corner of the hearth sat Mr. Skip,..a full corn basket beside him, an empty one in front.
corn-colour n.
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1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xix. 357 Rich dresses were numerous at church, particularly of corn-color silk.
1891 Daily News 1 Oct. 3/1 Corn colour is popular for ball gowns.
corn-crop n.
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1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 260 When applied to corn-crops, it should be..already decomposed.
corn-dole n.
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1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 102v Caius Gracchus cornedole was greate: he wasted therfore the treasurie.
corn-ear n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > ear or part of ear
eareOE
corn-eara1387
spike1393
icker1513
spikelet1860
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 305 Þe sweuene of þe seuene corneres.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clvi. 1053 Þe heedes of corne eeres been arrered vpward.
1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/19 Hec spica, a cornehere.
corn-fair n.
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1888 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 24 Nov. 4/4 Portsmouth, Ohio, is to have a corn fair.
corn-feast n.
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1823 J. D. Hunter Mem. Captivity 274 No occasion..displays in a more manifest degree its social effects than the corn feast.
corn-goddess n.
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1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 330 (note) Demeter as a corn-goddess.
corn-harvest n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest > specific harvest
barley-harvest1611
Indian harvest1639
oleity1656
corn-harvest1670
ice harvest1833
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 479 Their Corn Harvest had prov'd this year so thin, that thereupon a great..Famine ensu'd.
1709 Act 7 Anne in London Gaz. No. 4512/11 All Persons working at Hay-Harvest and Corn-Harvest work..shall not be Impressed.
corn-head n.
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1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Aug. 2/3 This..offence of plucking a few cornheads.
corn-heap n.
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1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie ii. ix. 195 What if in his chaffe hee finde but one, whiles I in my Corne-heape can finde more?
corn-leaf n.
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1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 414 Some bundles of corn-leaves, to be fed to the horse.
corn-market n.
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1547 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 77 Unius burgagii in Rypon in le olde Corne markettstede.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 164 The Factor introduces samples of the corn upon his stand or counter in the corn market.
corn-mart n.
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1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 6 A Village where a Corn Mart is kept once or twice in a Week.
corn-merchant n.
corn-plant n.
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1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 10 The chief corn-plants..are wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet, rice, and maize.
corn-produce n.
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1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xlii. 268 The importance of its corn-produce.
corn-riddle n.
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1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters viii. 157 Two tall pyramids of braxy-mutton, heaped up each on a corn-riddle.
corn-shock n.
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 30 Corneshocks sindged with blasterus hurling Of Southwynd whizeling.
1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 665 During winter they may be tracked..to the neighboring corn-shocks, which they have visited for food.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 97/2 In New England, where the term ‘shock’ is more usual than ‘stock’, the device was known as a corn shock binder.
corn-song n.
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1845 H. R. Schoolcraft Onéota 254 The cereal chorus or corn-song, as sung by the Northern Algonquin tribes.
corn-stack n.
corn-stubble n.
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1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1862) II. 212 The weeds and thistles which are in corn stubbles.
corn-top n.
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1733 J. Hempstead Diary 27 Oct. (1998) 263 Stacked our Corn Tops & Husks.
1814 J. Taylor Arator (ed. 2) 93 Some loss will accrue from the evaporation of a cover, whether composed of straw or corn tops.
1902 W. S. Gordon Recoll. Old Quarter 121 How the rustic hymns would be drawled out in the long summer days, to float away over the corntops.
corn-trade n.
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1753 (title) The State of the Corn Trade considered.
(b) Used in the cultivation, carriage, storage, etc., of corn.
corn-barn n.
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1780 E. Parkman Diary 16 Oct. (1899) 278 Dr. Hawes..took the whole care of husking the Corn, & carrying it into the Corn Barn.
1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 22 At a little distance was..a corn-barn for storing Indian corn.
corn-basket n.
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1648 Connecticut Public Records I. 487 1 spade..a corne baskitt.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. iv. 153 The contents filled a couple of corn baskets.
1871 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 66 Hand me that corn-basket; we'll put that over him.
corn-bin n.
ΚΠ
1859 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 161 A mortar for grain, and sundry gourds and bark corn-bins.
corn-bing n.
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1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry i. vi The granaries are also distinguished with partitions or corn-bings.
corn-chamber n.
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1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) II. 174 The Corn Chambers and Magazines in Holland.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 21 The rats were bad in the corn-chamber.
corn-city n.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > city where supplies were stored
corn-city1535
store-city1611
treasure-city1611
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. viii. 4 The cornecyties [1611 store cities] which he buylded in Hemath.
corn-fan n.
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1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxiii. 287 Bearing upon his shoulder a Corn fan.
corn-loft n.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grenier, a Garner; a Corne-loft; a roome to keepe salt, or corne, in.
corn-plough n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 627/2 Corn-plow, a shovel-plow, double-shovel, or other form of plow for tending crops planted in hills.
corn-sampler n.
ΚΠ
1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 5/2 A corn-sampler,..living in Bermondsey.
corn-ship n.
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c1878 Oxford Bible Helps 142 Alexandrian corn-ships carried one large square-sail.
corn-shovel n.
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Canoe Paddles..are pieces of..wood..resembling a corn-shovel.
corn-sieve n.
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1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 306 Isis placed the severed limbs of Osiris on a corn-sieve.
corn-van n.
corn-wain n.
corn-yard n.
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a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 194 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Cryand crawis..Will cum to ye corne ȝard.
b. Obj. genitive (sometimes as names of mechanical contrivances).
corn-cadger n.
corn-cleaner n.
corn-coverer n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 624/2 Corn-coverer, a plow or pair of plows to run alongside a row of dropped corn and throw earth upon the seed.
corn-crusher n.
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1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times v. 133 The presence of corn-crushers, which are round balls of hard stone, two to three inches in diameter, proves that agriculture was known and practised even in the Stone age.
corn-cultivator n.
corn-gauger n.
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1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 421 To send their corn-gaugers over the country regularly year after year.
corn-harvester n.
corn-sampler n.
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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 789
c. Objective.
corn-cumbering n.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 332 Cockle, wild Oates, rough Burs, Corn-cumbring Tares.
corn-devouring n.
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1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 The Corn devouring Weezel here abides. View more context for this quotation
corn-exporting n.
corn-growing n.
corn-planting n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > planting of specific plant or crop > [noun]
corn-planting1809
bean-setting1824
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. 13 Thinking to ask some usual question,..as to whether the family had done their corn planting [etc.].
1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 165 Corn-planting was over.
1849 J. Pritts Mirror Border Life 460 I remained in that situation till corn planting time.
corn-producing adj.
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c1878 Oxford Bible Helps 210 Egypt was a great corn-producing country in Jacob's time.
d. Instrumental.
(a)
corn-clad adj.
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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 62 And corn-clad vales a happier state attest.
corn-feeding adj.
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1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. ii. 443 Though the population in corn-feeding countries were dependent on the cheapest species of grain.
corn-laden adj.
ΚΠ
1881 Chicago Times 14 May She [i.e. the vessel] is corn-laden for Buffalo.
corn-strewed adj.
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1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 229 On the Corne-strew'd Lands.
corn-wreathed adj.
(b)
corn-fit adj.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 482 The Corne-fit-soyle.
e. Parasynthetic.
corn-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow
gildenOE
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Pactolian1586
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deaurated1818
Tuscan1830
corn-coloured1854
old gold1877
buttercup yellow1880
aureoline1881
sun gold1887
Tuscan-coloured1905
guinea-gold1938
spun-golden1978
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine vii. 103 If I catch you here again dickerin' after Fanny, I'll pull every corn-colored har out of your head.
1887 Daily News 20 July 6/2 A girl in corn-coloured surah, relieved with shoulder-knots and belt of wheat-green velvet.
C3. corn is also prefixed to the names of many plants to distinguish a species that grows in cornfields, as corn bell-flower, blue-bottle, bugloss, campion, crowfoot, mustard, speedwell, thistle, woundwort, etc.; also to names of animals living in cornfields or infesting corn, as corn bunting, sawfly, weevil, etc. See these words.
C4. Special Combinations. Also corn-baby n., corn-brandy n., etc. † corn-badger n. Obsolete a dealer in corn (see badger n.1). † corn-boor n. Obsolete a South African Dutch farmer who chiefly grows corn (German korn-bauer). † corn-dish n. Obsolete a dish for measuring corn. † corn-floor n. Obsolete a threshing floor. † corn-honey n. Obsolete honey which has become granulated. † corn-hoop n. Obsolete a measure for corn. † corn-meter n. Obsolete one who superintends the measuring of corn sold or distributed.† corn-rate n. Obsolete = corn-rent n.† corn-sedge n. Obsolete = corn-flag n. † corn-van n. Obsolete a ‘van’ or fan formerly used in winnowing corn.† corn-violet n. Obsolete a name of Campanula Speculum.
corn-ball n. (a) (U.S.), a sweetmeat made of popped corn or maize; (b) slang (originally U.S.), a ‘corny’ person (see corny adj.1); also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > trite, banal, or conventional
bromide1906
square1944
corn-ball1952
Pooter1957
pedestrian1969
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal
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unsensational1854
bromidic1906
corn-fed1929
corn-ball1970
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 64 Nanny remained near the dutch oven to keep us supplied with red-hot pones, or corn-balls.
1873 E. S. Phelps Trotty's Wedding Tour 3 They were eating a corn ball at recess.
1952 R. C. Ruark in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 124/2 Eisenhower on no account can be called a cornball.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xxv. 350 (Gloss.) Corny, stale, insipid..and so too ‘corn’ (noun), ‘cornfed’, ‘cornball’, and ‘off the cob’.
1962 Movie June 28/1 An expatriate cornball like Jerry Court.
1962 Melody Maker 7 July 11 Parker hired a cornball duo at one of the Sunday Reisner-Parker sessions in order to get rid of the audience.
1970 Daily Tel. 1 May (Colour Suppl.) 19 Things today have to be carefully said, because we live in that kind of world where the truisms sound cornball.
corn-beef n. corned beef (see corned adj.1 2).
corn-beetle n. a very small beetle, Cucujus testaceus, the larva of which often makes great ravages in stores of grain.
corn-bells n. (a) a species of fungus, Cyathus vernicosus or Nidularia campanulata, found in England in cornfields, etc.; (b) dialect name for ears of corn (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum (Britten) Call'd in Wostershire Cornbells, where it grows plentifully.
1865 Cornhill Mag. July 39 Corn-ears in Northamptonshire are corn-bells.
corn belt n. the area in which corn is grown.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > corn-land or -field
cornlanda1387
cornfield?1523
corn-ground1548
granary1570
milpa1648
kerning-ground1732
seeds1794
walk1797
corn belt1882
1882 Nation (N.Y.) 13 July 24/3 Crop reports from the West still continue favorable, though there are some discouraging accounts of the prospects in the ‘corn belt’.
1922 H. Titus Timber i. 12 Didn't Michigan Pine build th' corn belt?
1959 J. Thurber Years with Ross ii. 32 Ben Hecht..was a police reporter at heart, Elmer Davis a corn-belt intellectual.
corn-bill n. a parliamentary draft of a proposed corn-law.
ΚΠ
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 2 In the debate on the corn-bill.
1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Jan. 111 That distress which led to the present Corn Bill.
corn-bind n. (a) the wild English convolvulus; (b) running buckwheat, bindcorn n., Polygonum Convolvulus; also called corn-bindweed.
ΚΠ
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 323 Cornbind, climbing buck wheat; also..corn convolvulus.
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corn-binks n. dialect the blue-bottle, Centaurea Cyanus.
corn-blade n. U.S. the broad leaf of Indian corn.
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1775 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XIII. 160 The Western shore their feed is Corn-Blades & Oats.
1806 N. Webster Compend. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cornblades, leaves of maiz. (S. States).
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Corn-blades are collected and preserved as fodder, in some of the southern states of America.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase vi. 34 The driver..crowded the stage body even above the seats with corn-blades.
corn-boggart n. dialect a figure set up to scare away birds, etc., from growing corn.
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1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 92 He's as shy at new faces as a bird at a curn boggart.
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1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 249 In their company came a husbandman, or, as they are usually called here, a corn-boor, from the country near Cape Town.
corn-bottle n. dialect the blue-bottle.
ΚΠ
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 268 Corn-Bottles were brought to the Cape with the corn that was first sow'd there.
corn-brake n. U.S. a plantation of maize.
ΚΠ
1844 G. Featherstonhaugh in Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Oct. 223 He crept softly through a corn-brake which lay between the animal and himself, and fired.
corn-broom n. a broom made of the panicles of broom-corn or of the tops and dried seed-stalks of the maize-plant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
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brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
c1810 in T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. (1822) IV. 485 Straw bonnets,..Brushes,..Corn Brooms.
1823 J. Farmer & J. B. Moore Gaz. New-Hampsh. 127 Wooden ware, whips, corn brooms,..are manufactured by them.
1845 F. Douglas Life 74 Making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars and baskets.
1930 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune (1931) xxvi. 339 She was scrubbing the mud with a corn broom.
1963 Times 25 Feb. p. xvi/3 But youngsters in Canada swarmed to the rinks by the thousands and between the flashy long slide and the remarkable sweeping with corn brooms, as opposed to the Scots' scrubbing brush, they were completely sold on the game.
corn-cale n. Charlock or Field Mustard, Sinapis arvensis.
corn-cart n. a farm-cart adapted to the carriage of corn, etc.
ΚΠ
1805 Gen. View Agric. E. Lothian (Board of Agric.) v. 74 Hay and the different kinds of grain are carried upon the open spoked cart, known by the name of corn-cart.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring volume > measuring vessels > vessel of standard capacity > bowl for measuring grain or corn
toll-hoopc1270
corn-dish1419
reasonc1450
multure dish?c1475
toll-dishc1580
dish1774
1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) i. 243 Quilibet capitalis mensurarius habeat unum quarterium, et bussellum, et stryk, et corndisshe.
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corn-drake n. dialect = corncrake n. (Montagu 1802–33).
corn-drill n. a machine or drill for sowing grain in rows or, in U.S., Indian corn.
ΚΠ
1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 22 The occupier preferred hiring to purchasing a corn-drill.
corn-ear worm n. originally U.S. a larva ( Heliothis armigera or zea) that feeds on corn and other plants.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > heliothis armigera (corn-ear worm)
corn-ear worm1889
1889 Rep. Secr. Agric. (U.S.) 360 The Corn Ear~worm (Heliothis armigera) has done considerable damage to the ears of field corn.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 519/3 To protect the young cobs of corn from attacks by the corn ear worm, D.D.T. may be applied as a spray.
Corn-Exchange n. an Exchange devoted to the corn-trade.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place where merchants meet > for specific goods
Coal Exchange1755
piece hall1776
Corn-Exchange1794
cloth-hall1836
1794 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (1809) at Corn The exportation of corn [is] to be regulated in London, Kent, Essex, and Sussex by the prices at the Corn Exchange.
corn-festival n. U.S. (see quot.)
ΚΠ
1904 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 31 Aug. 4 They are having corn festivals in Kansas. Corn festivals in Kansas are public celebrations in recognition of good crops.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > threshing field or floor
bartonc950
summer fieldc1384
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corn-floora1425
summer halla1425
threshing floora1450
summer floor1535
threshing barn1812
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xvii. 10 It schal..wexe drye in the cornfloris of his seed [L. in areis germinis sui arescet].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ix. 1 Straunge rewardes hast thou loued, more then all corne floores [so 1611 and 1885]. Therfore shall they nomore enioye the cornefloores [1611 the floor, 1885 threshingfloor] and wynepresses.
corn-fly n. a name given to flies of the genera Chloris and Oscinis on account of the injury done by them to growing crops.
corn-fodder n. U.S. Indian corn sown broad-cast and cut to serve as fodder; (see also quot. 1744).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > forage-crop
podder1468
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forage-crop1875
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. vi. 39 Our Farmers, never fail to sow Hog-pease..for the great Service their Stalks do the Farmer, in supplying him with the best of Corn-fodder.
1772 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 14 288 We shall get in all our Corn Fother by the middle of next week.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 24 Farmers..estimate the corn fodder or stover upon an acre as equal to three fourths of a ton of English hay.
1904 M. E. Waller Wood-carver ii I can look..up the slope of the mountain, across the stony corn-fodder patch.
corn-fritter n. U.S. a fritter made of batter mixed with grated green Indian corn.
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1862 H. B. Stowe in Independent 13 Feb. A very minute account which Mrs. Kittridge was giving of the way to make corn-fritters which should taste exactly like oysters.
1903 N.Y. Evening Post 26 Sept. Corn fritters may be made of this hard corn.
corn-grass n. an old name of Agrostis Spicaventi.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > bent or agrostis
Agrostis1597
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marsh bent1764
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fiorin1809
wind-grass1847
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 4 Corne grasse hath many grassie leaues.
corn-grate n. dialect = cornbrash n.
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1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 114 The undersoil..is a loose, irregular mass of that kind of flat broken stones called, in Wiltshire, ‘Corn Grate’.
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corn-grater n. U.S. an appliance for detaching green Indian corn from the cob.
corn-grinder n. (a) U.S. = metate n.; (b) = corn-mill n.; (c) one who grinds corn.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller
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corn-grinder1841
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill
millOE
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corn-grinder1841
grain-mill1867
1841 Knickerbocker 17 234 Improved..corn-grinders.
a1854 G. Furman Antiq. Long Island (1875) 97 At Maspeth Kills..Indian corn-grinders..have been frequently ploughed up.
1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents II. 245 Several broken metates, or corn-grinders, lie about the pile.
1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major I. ii. 23 Miller Loveday was the representative of an ancient family of corn-grinders.
1907 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 6/2 Disguised as corn-grinders.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 432 Rollerman,..corn grinder.
corn-grinding n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun]
milling1466
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farination1859
high grinding1869
gristing1883
corn-grinding1905
1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 8/2 That they shall revert to corn-grinding.
1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters 48 The discovery of corn-grinding stones.
corn-grit n.
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1822 W. D. Conybeare & W. Phillips Outl. Geol. Eng. & Wales 202 In Wiltshire it is known by the name of the cornbrash or corn-grit. The latter appellation however is improper because it is not a grit.
corn-high adj. U.S. as tall as a stalk of corn.
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1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 52 I was born in Chicago..and railroaded ever since I was corn high.
corn-hill n. in North America, a small hillock raised by the Indians for the planting of maize.
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1751 Virginia Gaz. 17 Oct. A new Tobacco-House being built, and about 35,000 Corn-Hills cleared.
1765 J. Bartram Jrnl. 28 Dec. (1766) 11 These are..the common planting grounds of the former Florida Indians, as is proved by..the vestigies of the corn hills still remaining.
1785 G. Washington Diaries II. 363 The Wheat ground..being..too much baked for the roller to make a proper impression, the Corn hills yielded but little to its weight.
1839 H. Colman 2nd Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 31 The corn hills were split with the common harrow.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times vii. 230 In many places the ground is covered with small mammillary elevations, which are known as Indian corn-hills.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > other types of honey
clarified honeya1450
flower-honey1577
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stone-honey1609
hive-honey1653
grass-honey1658
lily-honey1658
stock-honey1742
heather-honey1826
clover honey-
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. G6v Liquid hony is of two sorts: one hard and white even like unto sugar, which is therefore called stone-hony, or corne-hony: the other so soft that it will runne, which therefore is called liue-hony.
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corn-hook n. U.S. an instrument with a short scythe-like blade, for reaping Indian corn.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units
skep1100
strike13..
strick1421
muida1425
hoop1520
tope1530
stroke1532
anker1597
corn-hoop1660
gallon1684
acherset1701
1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade 155 The dimension of round, concave and dry measures, as Pecks, Bushels, Strikes, Corn-hoops, etc.
corn-huller n. a machine for hulling corn.
corn-jobber n. a dealer in corn.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in grain
oatmonger1300
corn-monger?1518
corn-merchant1556
corn-master1579
swaler1597
hop-merchant1639
cornfactor1699
corn-dealer1707
corn-jobber1795
grain-merchant1838
grain-dealer1840
grain-bag1890
1795 Hull Advertiser 7 Nov. 2/4 The corn jobber..from this sample bought up the whole.
corn-juice n. U.S. slang whisky made of Indian corn, hence whisky generally.
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1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 107 Tom wanted a fight..he was too full of corn juice to cut carefully.
1854 P. B. St. John Amy Moss 50 He..did anything..which youthful spirits and ‘corn-juice’ prompted.
corn-king n. cf. corn-spirit n.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > other types of
ice spirit1829
ice queen1831
corn-spirit1890
corn-king1931
1931 N. Mitchison (title) The Corn King, and the Spring Queen.
1947 C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 137 The deity—Adonis, Osiris..—[was] almost undisguisedly a personification of the corn, a ‘corn-king’ who died and rose again each year.
corn-kist n. Scottish and northern dialect a corn-bin.
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1634 Edinb. Test. LVI. f. 329, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The corne kist, price fowr pundis.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Coornkist, the corn-bin.
corn-kister n. Scottish ‘a rollicking song sung at gatherings of farm-workers’ ( Sc. National Dict.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > rousing or rollicking song
freemen's songc1575
roarer1836
corn-kister1936
belter1963
1936 Huntly Express 10 Jan. 6 There was speeches made, an' cornkisters sung.
1937 St. Andrews Citizen 27 Mar. 4/1 The programme was as follows:— Opening chorus and a curn corn-kisters.
corn-knife n. U.S. a large strong knife for cutting standing Indian corn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > corn-knife
corn-knife1856
1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 54 Six corn knives.
1948 Chicago Daily News 9 Oct. 3/3 Anything from a machete to a hatchet or corn knife.
corn-lift n. a mechanical contrivance in a mill or warehouse for raising sacks of corn.
corn-man n. a labourer employed in the reaping or carrying of corn.
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1890 Daily News 9 Oct. 5/2 The..rates of wages for dockers and cornmen.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of corn
corn-meter1650
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vii. 129 Joseph was corn-meater generall in Egypt.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 549 Corn-meter [as one of the public officers of Hindustan].
corn-mildew n. a mildew that attacks growing corn.
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1883 Good Words Nov. 733/2 Later in the season this [rust] develops into the corn-mildew.
corn-mint n. (a) a name, in Turner, of a species of Calamint, C. Acinos, Wild Basil (cf. German kornminze, Dutch corneminte); (b) book-name of the Field-mint, Mentha arvensis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > wild basil
calamint1322
mountain calamint1449
horse-thyme1548
corn-mint1551
wild pennyroyal1552
basil1578
fish-basil1597
mountain mint1597
stone basil1597
nep1614
nepitella1926
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > mint or wild mint
minteOE
minteOE
horse-minta1300
crisp mint1578
fish-mint1578
brook mint1597
cross-mint1597
Mentha1731
corn-mint1796
crisped mint1829
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. G vj b Thys kynde of Calamynte..is called in Englishe comonly corne mynt.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 525 Corn Mint. Watery places and moist corn fields.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 163 Corn Mint. is one of the commonest species of mint.
corn-month n. the month for harvesting the corn crops.
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1828 F. D. Hemans Edith in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 80 The corn-month's golden hours will come.
corn-moth n. a species of moth, Tinea granella, the larva of which, called the ‘wolf’, is very destructive to corn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > tinea granella (grain-moth)
wolf1682
corn-moth1766
fly-weevil1789
grain-moth1842
wolf-moth1863
1766 Compl. Farmer at Moth The possibility of destroying the corn moth, or worm, without hurting the grain.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 315 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The clothes-moth and corn-moth are representatives of the family.
corn-mother n. cf. corn-spirit n.
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1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 341 Out of the last sheaf the Bulgarians make a doll which they call the Corn-queen or Corn-mother.
corn-mow n. dialect a stack of corn or a place where corn is stacked.
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1765 London Chron. 24 Aug. 192 A poor man..fell from a corn-mow..and fractured his skull.
?1788 R. Burns Ploughman in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum II. 173 Commend me to the Barn yard, And the Corn-mou, man.
corn-muller n. a pestle used for pounding corn.
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1881 Rep. Smithsonian Inst. (1883) 612 The stone with a hole in the center..is called a corn-muller.
corn-mush n. U.S. (see mush n.1 1).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
1846 J. S. Griffin Diary 24 Nov. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1942) XXI. 216 They had nothing to eat but penolas & corn mush.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away & Other Stories 81 Tortillas and corn-mush with bits of meat.
1941 A. Huxley Let. 13 Mar. (1969) 465 Most of the southern farmers still prefer corn mush..to vegetables.
corn-oyster n. U.S. a corn-fritter with a taste resembling that of oysters.
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1847 S. Rutledge Carolina Housewife 101 Corn Oysters. Grate corn, while green and tender, with a coarse grater, in a deep dish. To two ears of corn allow one egg; beat the whites and yolks separately, and add them to the corn, with one table-spoonful of wheat flour and one of butter.
1862 H. B. Stowe in Independent 13 Feb. In this secret direction about the mace lay the whole mystery of corn-oysters.
corn-pike n. †(a) a pitch-fork; (b) a circular rick of corn, pointed at the top (dialect).
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork > pitch-fork
pikeforkc1275
shakefork1338
pickfork1349
pitchfork1364
pikea1398
bicornec1420
hay-fork1552
shed-fork1559
straw-fork1573
pikel1602
sheppeck1602
corn-pike1611
wain-forka1642
pick1777
pickle1847
peak1892
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Javelier, a corne-pike, or pitchforke, wherewith sheaues of corne be loaden, and vnloaded.
1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 394/1 One Susan Bolke..came, and with her Corn-Pike, made at Morton.
corn-pit n. (a) (South African) a deep hole for storing maize and corn.; (b) (U.S.) the part of an Exchange where the business in Indian corn is carried on.
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1883 J. Edwards Remin. (1886) 83 In the ‘corn pits’ were..to be seen scores of human skulls.
1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 20 Nov. 8/3 For a time this morning there was a panic in the corn-pit, and the November option of that cereal sold up 7 cents from the closing price of yesterday.
corn-popper n. U.S. a wire pan or covered tray used in popping Indian corn.
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1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. viii. 63 The baggage-car is as lively with all sorts of baggage as corn in a corn-popper.
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Add. Corn-popper, an instrument the top of which is like a sieve, in which corn is held over a fire to roast or ‘pop’.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 57 Boulders dance about it [sc. a stream of water] like kernels in a corn-popper.
1909 S. E. White Rules of Game v. iii One of you boys go rummage the store-room for the corn popper.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Oct. 20/1 (advt.) Corn Poppers at, each 45c.
1946 Reader's Digest Jan. 60/1 The Boy would have the cornpopper waiting.
corn-popping n. U.S. the making of popped Indian corn by roasting it till it splits and the white flour swells out; a social gathering at which this is done.
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1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 610/2 What romps they would have! what corn-poppings!
corn poppy n. the common wild poppy of cornfields, Papaver Rhœas, with bright scarlet flowers, or any other species growing in corn, as P. dubium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy
poppyeOE
wild poppya1300
red poppya1400
mecop1480
corn-rose1527
field poppy1597
redweed1609
darnel1612
cockrose?1632
canker1640
tell-love1640
rose poppy1648
erratic poppy1661
corn poppy1671
headwark1691
cop-rose1776
headachea1825
thunderbolt1847
thunder-flower1853
Iceland poppy1870
Greenland poppy1882
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 416 Corn-Poppy, it is Narcotick, allays Pain, is used in Feavers.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 115 Except the corn poppy, this [the pimpernel] is said to be the only scarlet flower we have.
corn-queen n. cf. corn-spirit n.
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1890Corn-queen [see corn-mother n.].
corn-rail n. = corncrake n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > crex crex (corn-crake)
raila1450
quail?a1500
corncrakea1525
daker-hen1552
craker1698
corn-craker1703
landrail1766
crake1793
rye-crake1807
grass-drake1826
corn-rail1830
meadow crake1833
meadow gallinule1843
1830 J. W. Warter tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 228 Stones..the cornrails chiselled with their bills.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in produce or livestock > specific
rynmart1433
rynmutton1459
capon1495
mart1520
tack-swine1523
reek hen1540
farm meal1547
reek-poultry1585
reek fowl1592
corn-rate1665
wheat-rent?c1682
nowt-geld1688
farm-dish1713
corn-rent1809
pepper-rent1866
1665 D. Lloyd Fair Warnings 17 The setling of the Corne-rate for the Universities.
corn-rig n. dialect a ‘ridge’ of growing corn, the strip between two furrows in a cornfield.
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1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 14 Corn rigs, an' barley rigs, An' corn rigs are bonie.
a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 329 Hid in a corn-rig.
corn-roast n. North American a party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast by type of food
ambigu1669
oyster feast1718
waffle frolic1744
turtle-frolic1750
turtle-feast1753
turtle1771
turtle-dinner1805
waffle party1808
whitebait dinner1809
blood feast1832
sausage party1848
luau1853
pig roast1887
corn-roast1899
hog roast1908
marshmallow roast1914
spit roast1927
1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 8/1 The last number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine says that..the two old boys..went to a corn-roast.
1923 Beaver Oct. 29/2 Girls of the office staff spent an enjoyable time..the occasion being a corn roast.
1944 E. A. Holton Yankees were like This 256 Eating clams is the only act more messy than gnawing corn off the cob at a corn roast.
corn rocket n. a salad plant, Bunias (or Crambe) orientalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > other leaf vegetables
corn-salad1597
palmetto1598
frost-blite1711
corn rocket1731
Welsh onion1731
milk grass1746
square-podded rocket1753
lamb's quarter1773
Shawnee salad1780
palmiste1835
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Erucago We have but one Species of this Plant, which is..Corn-Rocket.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Corn-Rocket, or square-podded Rocket, a distinct genus of plants, called by botanists Erucago.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Rocket, Corn, Bunias.
corn-rust n. a parasitic fungus infesting growing corn.
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1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings vi. 121 In appearance the corn-rust is a mere patch of reddish-yellow powder.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > gladioli or freesia
gladiolec1420
corn-flag1578
corn-sedge1597
lily-grass1597
sword-grass1598
petty gladdon1601
sword-lily1786
Afrikaner1801
freesia1879
kalkoentjie1906
painted lady1906
Afrikander1913
glad1923
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 96 The flowers of Corne Flag are called..in English Corne Flag, Corne Sedge, Corne Gladin.
corn-sheller n. U.S. a machine for removing the grains from the ear or cob of Indian corn.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > shelling maize > machine
corn-sheller1813
1813 in Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. (1814) III. 250 (caption) Description of the Corn sheller..One bushel of corn in the ears, may with ease be shelled in five minutes.
1825 Boston Monthly Mag. I. 25 A patent corn-sheller..may be of more service to the community, than all the poems of Byron or the novels of Scott.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 169 Corn-shellers, to shell twenty to fifty bushels per hour.
1851 Fredericksburg (Va.) News 21 Mar. Corn Shellers—Both Hand and Horse Power.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 9 A thing..that turns out results like a corn-sheller.
corn-shelling n. the process of detaching the grains of maize from the cob; also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > shelling maize
corn-shelling1813
1813 in Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. (1814) III. 249 The inventor of the corn shelling machine..is John Haven, of Montgomery county [Penna.].
a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) 62 Better for him had he minded his corn-shelling alone.
1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road xiii. 120 The pork-packin' and corn-shellin' seasons nearly on us.
corn-silk n. U.S. the styles of maize.
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1861 Harper's Mag. Aug. 322/2 [The] Tinea Maisinia—‘Corn-silk Moth’..feeds only on the efflorescence or silk of the corn.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 258 Let the fellow's hair turn the color of corn-silk in the sun.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxix. 279 His eyes desired to follow the soft white curve of her cheek to dance with the light of her corn-silk hair.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iv. 5/3 Ada Cloninger..had never smoked anything since a girlish bout with corn silk.
1968 Washington Post 5 July A 18/3 Dyed corn husks, corn silk and pipe cleaners.
corn-silker n. a machine for removing the corn-silk.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 558/1 Among the devices in common use are..corn cutters, corn silkers, pea briners, [etc.].
corn-smut n. a disease in growing corn, produced by a fungus which turns the grains into a black soot-like powder.
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1883 Good Words Nov. 735/2 Corn-smut is not nearly so injurious as corn-mildew.
corn-spirit n. (in writers on folklore) a spirit or animated being (taking various forms), supposed by some races to dwell in corn.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > other types of
ice spirit1829
ice queen1831
corn-spirit1890
corn-king1931
1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. 307 The corn-spirit seems to be only an extension of the older tree-spirit.
corn-spurrey n. a small weed, Spergula arvensis, bearing white flowers and whorled leaves.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > corn-spurrey
corn-spurrey1771
yarr1775
pickpurse1787
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 621/1 Spergula..arvensis, or corn-spurrey.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 463 Corn spurry..is found most frequently in soils, rather moist.
1962 A. R. Clapham et al. Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 257 S[pergula] arvensis, Corn Spurrey, an annual herb with ascending geniculate stems 7·5–40 cm., branching close to the base.
corn starch n. U.S. (a) a starch made of Indian corn; (b) a fine flour made of Indian corn and used in puddings, custards, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > flour from specific cereals
rye flour?a1425
wheat-floura1425
barley-flour1620
randan1743
cornflour1791
suji1810
sattu1814
Oswego flour1855
atta1860
corn starch1862
Oswego1881
kalo1966
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > starch > types of
faecula1684
tous-les-mois1839
corn starch1862
1862 Exhibition, Rep. of Juries (1863) III. A, 13 Maizena or corn starch used for food.
1887 Hood's Cook-bk. No. 7 Cake made from corn-starch.
corn states n. U.S., those States in which maize is the principal crop.
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1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne xxvii. 292 The book-agent..was managing his wife's lecture tour throughout the corn states.
corn-stook n. northern dialect a shock of corn.
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1884 T. Speedy Sport in Highlands x. 176 Those who conceal themselves in corn-stooks.
corn syrup n. U.S. a thick syrup made usually from corn starch.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > other syrups
hydrosacrec1400
succadoc1530
honey roset1558
tree-honey1626
treacle1694
capillaire1754
dibs1757
syrup of capillaire1785
arrope1851
glucose1852
bush-syrup1866
palm-honey1866
moskonfyt1872
grenadine1896
pyromel1899
corn syrup1903
butterscotch1910
rose hip syrup1942
1903 U.S. Dept. Agric. Circular No. 10 8 Glucose sirup or corn sirup is glucose unmixed or mixed with sirup or molasses.
1964 Listener 26 Nov. 842/2 They regarded..British rations with varying degrees of horror. ‘What,’ said the Canadians, ‘no corn syrup?’
corn-thrips n. a small insect, Thrips cerealium, which deposits its eggs on wheat, oats, grasses, etc.
corn-tongs n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > other tongs or pincers
mullets1585
corn-tongs1622
pin tongs1846
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue 233 As if they had pull'd out his Eyes with Pincers and held him by the nose with Corne-tongs.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 69 Corn Tongs, tweezers with the gripping points formed to resemble the shell of a barley corn. They are used by jewellers for picking up stones, etc.
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1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 291 An oar my hand must bear; a shepherd eyes The unknown instrument with strange surprize, And calls a Corn-van.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers
bell-flower1578
bluebell1578
Canterbury bells1578
Coventry bells1578
Coventry Marians1578
Coventry rapes1578
fair-in-sight1578
gauntlet1578
haskwort1578
Marian's violet1578
throatwort1578
lady's looking glass1597
mariet1597
Mercury's violet1597
peach-bells1597
steeple bells1597
uvula-wort1597
Venus looking-glass1597
campanula1664
Spanish bell1664
corn-violet1665
rampion1688
Venus' glass1728
harebell1767
heath-bell1805
witch bell1808
slipperwort1813
meadow-bell1827
greygle1844
platycodon1844
lady's thimble1853
kikyo1884
witches' bells1884
balloon flower1901
fairy thimble1914
mountain bell1923
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 152 Of the seeds of Venus looking-glass, or Corn Violet.
corn-weevil n. one of several popular names for weevils attacking corn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > corn-weevil
corn-weevil1840
grain-weevil1848
1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects ii. 117 The Corn Weevil.. The perfect insect is of small size, linear shape, with a narrow rostrum.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 335 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI The other species of corn-weevil alluded to,..the granary weevil, is more common in this country.
1880 O'Neill & Williams Amer. Farmer's Handbk. xiv. 642 (heading) Corn Weevil.—A small insect... The female deposits her eggs upon corn in granaries, and the young larva at once burrows into the grain.
corn-whiskey n. U.S. a spirit distilled from maize.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxii. 210 Candidates..making licentious speeches, treating to corn whiskey, violating the Sabbath.
1857 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. II. 149 The room..reeked with fumes of tobacco and corn whiskey.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xiii. 130 A bottle of apparently corn-whiskey.
1948 Sat. Rev. 28 Aug. 12/3 Chism himself teaches eleven-year-old Jarvis to drink corn whiskey.
Draft additions 1997
corn circle n. = crop circle n. at crop n. Additions.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land on which crop is flattened
circle1980
crop circle1988
corn circle1989
1987 Flying Saucer Rev. 32 vi. 12/2 The surface plants..were laid out along the same veining contours that we had already come to associate with all the cornfield circles.]
1989 in J. Schnabel Round in Circles (1993) 80 I have been meaning to write to you for some time on the subject of corn circles... About six or seven years ago I was fortunate enough to see one of these form in a field at Westbury.
1990 New Scientist 11 Aug. 23/3 Dozens of flattened rings in wheat have been reported recently in Australia... The rings resemble the corn circles found in southern Britain.
1991 Independent 5 Jan. (Mag.) 9/3 In this respect the shroud controversy is reminiscent of that of the corn circles, about which feverish debate continues.
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corn dog n. North American a hot dog covered in maize-flour batter, typically deep-fried and served on a stick.
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1939 Washington Post 29 July 9/8 They came right back with one of their home-town delicacies, the ‘corn dog’, which is a frankfurter baked in cornbread. So now I shall have another excuse to pay them a visit to Texas.
1987 G. Keillor State Fair in Leaving Home (1989) 114 I smell fall in the air, manure, corn dogs.
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cornsilk adj. North American (of hair) resembling the colour and texture of cornsilk; fine and pale blonde.
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1894 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 29 May They would be far more appropriate for that fairy-like little sister of hers, with the pansy eyes and corn-silk hair.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. 292 The month-old corn-silk beard which concealed most of his abraded face.
1995 J. Hildebrand Mapping Farm viii. 100 Her angular face and cornsilk hair favored the St. Georges.
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corn buttercup n. a buttercup having round, spiky fruits, Ranunculus arvensis, native to Europe but introduced elsewhere and often considered an agricultural weed.Also called devil's claw, starve-acre.
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1838 Sinclair's Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis (ed. 4) i. 315 Horse gold (ranunculus arvensis). This species of frog-wort or corn butter-cup is an annual.
1953 Country Life 7 May 1447/2 Weeds such as corn buttercup and thistles need double-strength spraying.
2005 Times 9 May 25 The corn buttercup..was once widespread but now is found only in a tiny number of areas from Norfolk to Oxfordshire.
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corn chip n. originally U.S. (a) (probably) a dried or toasted ear of corn (now rare); (b) a salty crisp or chip made with ground corn and typically eaten as a snack (now the usual sense); (also) a tortilla chip.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > prepared grains
polentaOE
groats?a1100
tisanea1425
oat groatsa1475
grist?1567
polent1577
French barley1596
pearl barley1639
shelled corn1676
pot barley1761
burghul1764
semolina1784
yokeag1824
burgoo1825
Scotch barley1825
pearl sago1828
semoletta1844
semola1853
manna croup1864
manna groats1864
corn chip1868
rolled oats1870
flake-manna1886
flake-tapioca1886
grape-nuts1898
kibble1902
stamped mealies1911
stamp1923
bulgur1934
freekeh1940
stamp mealies1952
1868 J. V. Hadley Seven Months Prisoner v. 74 We had a few corn chips on hand, and hurriedly baked up what little meal we had.
1917 Outlook 3 Jan. 29/1 Breakfast? It consists no longer of three teaspoonfuls of corn chips... Breakfast is an occasion.
1932 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram 6 Nov. iii. 3/3 (advt.) Distributor Wanted for ‘Corn Chips’, food product, 5c item... Dallas manufacturer.
1967 S. Afr. Sugar Jrnl. 51 1061/1 The following dunkers: potato crisps, corn chips, cream cracker biscuits, cheese straws, bread sticks.
2015 R. Walsh Chilli Cookbk. 93 Original Frito Pie. Open a 1¾-ounce bag of Fritos corn chips. Into the bag, pour ½ cup of chili, ¼ cup shredded cheddar, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, and a couple of jalapeño slices. Eat it out of the bag.
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cornn.2
/kɔːn/, U.S. /kɔrn/ 1.
a. A horny induration of the cuticle, with a hard centre, and a root sometimes penetrating deep into the subjacent tissue, caused by undue pressure, chiefly on the toes or feet from tight or hard boots. The earlier native name was angnail, agnail n. (where see other quots.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > hardening or thickening > hard skin > corn
agnaileOE
cornc1440
werrock?a1513
wrang-nail?c1530
core1532
crest1569
pin1611
warnel1611
clavus1807
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 93 Coorne or harde knott in þe flesche, cornicallus.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. iiiv Clauus..In englyshe it is named cornes or agnelles in a mannes fete or toes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 20 Shee that makes daintie, shee Ile sweare hath Corns . View more context for this quotation
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 13 When he is pinch't on that toe where his corn is.
1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 238 A coming Shower your shooting Corns presage.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 524/1 Corns are sometimes developed at the roots of the fingers.
1846 Duke of Wellington in Nonconformist VI. 13 The Duke begs to say he has no corns and never means to have any. It is his opinion that if there were no boots there would be no corns.
b. In horses' feet: A bruise of the sensitive parts of the heel, in the angle between the bars and the wall of the hoof, caused by the pressure of the shoe, or by the violent contact of stones or other hard substances.[It is doubtful whether the first quot. belongs here. Bosworth–Toller has it under corn n.1 Quot. 1600 may mean ‘hoof’: Cotgrave 1611 has as senses of French corne ‘..also the hoofe of a beasts foot; also, the sit-fast (a hard or hornie swelling in the backe-part of a horse)’.]
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 62 Þis mæg horse wið þon þe him bið corn on þa fet.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 193 The disease of the hoofe or the corne.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 33 Cæsar's Horse, who, as fame goes, Had Corns upon his feet and toes.
1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 9 Spavins, splints, corns..being all curable.
2. to tread on any one's corns: figurative to wound his susceptibilities.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > be displeased with [verb (transitive)] > displease
mislikeeOE
ofthinkeOE
misquemeOE
likec1175
forthinka1225
mispay?c1225
annoyc1300
there glads (also gains, games) him no gleec1300
unpay1340
offenda1382
to be displeasedc1386
to step or tread on the toes ofc1394
mispleasea1400
unlikea1425
edgec1450
injurea1492
discontenta1513
disdain1530
to set (a person's) teeth on edge1535
displeasure1541
mis-set?1553
dislike1578
to tread on any one's heels or toes1710
flisk1792
unentrance1834
to tread on any one's cornsa1855
umbragea1894
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xxv. 240 To work me into lunacy by treading on my mental corns.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxv. 239 Insulted the doctor, and trampled on the inmost corns of the nurse.
1886 ‘S. Tytler’ Buried Diamonds iv We cannot avoid treading on each other's corns as we go on our various ways.
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C1. Relating to the treatment or cure of corns, as corn-doctor, corn-extractor, corn-knife, corn-operator, corn-rubber, corn-salve; corn-footed, corn-sick adjs. Also corn-cutter n.2
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > chiropodist > corn-cutter
corn-cutter1593
corn-doctor1767
corn-operator1819
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 301 The noted corn-doctor.
1771 H. Lawrence Contempl. Man I. i. xi. 76 The Coach now overtaking them, to the great Joy of Mr. Crab, who was Corn-sick.
1818 Ld. Byron Let. 24 Nov. (1976) VI. 82 He brought nothing but his papers, some corn-rubbers, and a kaleidoscope.
1819 Post Office London Directory 379 Wolff & Son, Corn-operators.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 27/2 The vendors of corn-salve.
1868 Morning Star 16 Jan. His client was not a corn-cutter, but a corn-extractor.
1913 J. Stephens Here are Ladies 71 An old, ache-ridden, cough-racked, corn-footed septuagenarian.
C2.
corn-cure n. a remedy for corns.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > [noun] > of corns
corn-cure1881
1881 Graphic 21 May (advt.) Bond's marvellous corn cure.
1906 R. Whiteing Ring in New 158 The methods of a puff for corn-cure.
1970 D. Clark Sweet Poison iii. 60 Common household medicines—T.C.P., plasters, Panadol, two or three ointments and a corn cure.
corn-leaf n. dialect the Navel-wort ( Cotyledon Umbilicus).
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1854 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 13 459 They are used for corns and warts..hence..called corn-leaves.
corn-plaster n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > sticking-plaster > corn-plaster
corn-plaster1868
1868 G. Meredith Let. 31 Jan. (1970) I. 369 In a fit of distraction I may stick a corn plaster on the envelope instead of a Queen's Head.
1879 Chemist & Druggist 15 Feb. 58/2 Corn Plaster (Dr. Smith).—Felt rings spread with sticking-plaster.
1879 Chemist & Druggist 15 Mar. 134/1 The adhesive surface of Corn Plaisters, as usually made, is..a gelatinous solution.
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† cornn.3
Obsolete.
1. A musical instrument, a horn.In first quot. apparently a mere reproduction of the Latin.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun]
hornc825
corneta1400
corn1477
mute cornet1637
zinke1776
tooter1860
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xcvii[i]. 6 Syngis til oure god..in voice of trumpe corne [L. voce tubæ corneæ].]
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 38 Iason dide do sowne trompettis, tabours, and cornes.
2. Fortification. A horned work or hornwork n.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > hornwork
hornworkc1660
tongue1688
corn1693
horn1709
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely ii. 106 The next day Teckely..took the Corn almost in the view of the Town.
3. ? A corner. Cf. corned adj.2 2.
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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 68 Rings..made like them at the hatches cornes (by which we take them vp and lay them downe).
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cornv.
/kɔːn/, U.S. /kɔrn/ I. To form into grains, and related uses.† 2. intransitive. To take the form of grains, to become granular. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To form into grains; to granulate; spec. to bring (gunpowder) into roundish particles or grains by working it through sieves.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > form into grains or granules [verb (transitive)]
corn1562
granulate1666
granate1750
grain1791
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > load or prime (a gun) > pulverize (gunpowder)
corn1562
1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 28, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre Pouder..muste bee corned, and then dried.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 71 Serpentine powder in old time was in meale, but now corned.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 94 A quart of the strongest and stalest Ale..which cornes it [sc. salt] greater or smaller according to the degree of its staleness.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery ii. 104 Powder when it is corned is more active and powerful than when pulverized.
1796 Hull Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4 This mill..was used for..corning the powder.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 496/1 The composition..is..sent to the corning-house to be corned or grained; here it is first pressed into a hard and firm body, broken into small lumps, and the powder is then grained by these lumps being put into sieves, etc.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > become granular or form grains [verb (intransitive)]
corn1562
kern1657
granulate1667
grain1749
1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 28, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre Into the whiche seue the pouder must bee put, while it is danke, and also a little bowle, that when you sifte, maie rolle vp and doune, vpon the clottes of pouder, to breake theim, that it maie corne, and runne through the holes of the Seeue.
1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 20 Now I will shew you how to corn Gunpowder.
1674–91 J. Ray Making Salt Coll. 206 After one hour's boiling the Brine will begin to corn.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 94 They boile it [sc. the brine] again gently till it begin to Corne.
II. To season.
3. transitive. To sprinkle with salt in grains; to season, pickle, or preserve with salt; to salt.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve with salt
salta1398
powder?c1425
corn1565
muriate1699
rouse1711
kern1721
strike1780
to dress down1843
roil1848
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > salt
saltc950
corn1565
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Aspergere salem carnibus, to corne with salt.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29v Some corneth, som brineth, som wil not be taught wher meat taketh vent, there the huswife is naught.
1634 R. H. tr. Regim. Salerni 86 The foresaid fishes be better, beeing a little corned with Salt, then fresh, or utterly salt.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xx. 179 The beef was woundily corn'd.
1801 Ann. Reg. 1800 (Otridge ed.) Chron. App. 110/1 Herrings sprinkled (or, as it is termed, ‘roused or corned’) with a moderate quantity of salt.
1882 Sat. Rev. 54 642 Obliged to corn a great part of the meat as the only way of preserving it for use.
III. To provide with grain.† 4. To provision with corn or grain. rare.
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1456 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) 45 (Jam.) Thai ar bettir cornyt than thai war fernyere, and thair innemys war cornyt.
5. To give (a horse) a feed of oats. Scottish and northern.
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1753 Trial J. Stewart 171 The pannel called at the deponents house..to have his horse corned.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 166 When thou was corn't, an' I was mellow, We took the road ay like a Swallow.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xiii. 318 There is nothing like corning the horse before the journey.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Coorn'd, supplied with food. ‘Get 'em coorn'd’, get the animals fed.
IV. To form seeds.
6. intransitive. Of cereals, or pulse: to form the corns or seeds in the ear or pod; to kern v.1
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > be a seed-bearing plant [verb (intransitive)] > produce or form seeds
kern1297
seeda1398
kernel1483
corn1632
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iii. liii. 122 The infant Eares shoot forth, and now begin To corn.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 102 When it begins to corn in the ear.
1884 Times 20 June 4 Spring-sown beans..are short, thin, weak, and cannot corn well.
V. Senses relating to the planting of corn.† 7. To produce corn. Obsolete. rare.
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1590 R. Wilson 3 Lords & Ladies in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VI. 397 There will never come his like, while the earth can corn.
8. transitive. To crop (land) with corn or grain; in U.S. to plant with maize.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with grain
corn1652
wheat1847
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > planting of specific plant or crop > plant with specific plant or crop [verb (transitive)]
corn1886
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 183 And when you have corned your Land as much as you intend, then to alter it to Claver is the properest season.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iii. §4. 27.
1886 U.S. Consular Rep. No. ix. 40 Those hundreds of thousands of acres of once valuable Southern lands, corned to death, and now lying to waste in worthless sage grass.
1940 J. Stuart Trees of Heaven 129 I'd corn this land three years, then I'd sow it in wheat and orchard grass.
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