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blé
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, grain
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Corn
- (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
- (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
- (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
- (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
- (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
- (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
- (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
- (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
- (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
Synonyms:
Clavus, Maize, Wheat,
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• Corniferous
- (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.
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• Cornification
- (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.
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