corn

Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.

Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.

Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.

Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.

A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

Verely, verely, I ſay vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

A small, hard particle.

The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]

corns of powder

A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

to corn gunpowder

To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.

To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.

Corn the horses.

To render intoxicated.

ale strong enough to corn one

To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?

A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]

An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.