corn 
corn (kôrn)
noun
- Now Dial. a tiny, hard particle, as of salt or sand; granule; grain
- a small, hard seed or seedlike fruit, esp. a seed or grain of a cereal grass; kernel: now chiefly in compounds, as peppercorn, barleycorn
- ☆
- a cultivated American cereal plant (Zea mays) of the grass family, with the grain borne on cobs enclosed in husks; maize
- the ears or kernels of this cereal plant
- Brit.
- the seeds of all cereal grasses, as wheat, rye, barley, etc.; grain
- any plant or plants producing grain
- the leading cereal crop in a particular place, as wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland
- Informal corn whiskey
- ☆ Informal ideas, humor, music, etc. regarded as old-fashioned, trite, banal, or sentimental
Etymology: ME & OE < IE base *ger-, to ripen, mature, grow old > grain, churn, Gr gerōn, old man
transitive verb
- to form into granules
- to preserve or pickle with salt granules or in brine
- to feed grain to (animals)
corn (kôrn)
noun
a hard, thick, painful growth of skin, esp. on a toe, caused by pressure or friction
Etymology: ME & OFr corne < L cornu, horn
corn
n.
Preposition: on
- cob: By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 07:19 pm: what corn on cob?
- hook: Simon fished flavored corn on the hook together with soft hook pellets.
Converse of object
- grind: The water from the stream originally provided the steam to power the workings for grinding the corn for local farmers.
- thresh: Next harvest saw both farmer and yard boy threshing the corn themselves.
- chop: Paul fished peg 47 and caught all his fish on soft pellet fished over carp pellet and chopped corn.
Adjective modifier
- sweet: I've also been involved in marketing at Green Giant which mainly involved their sweet corn, which was OK.
- transgenic: In addition, their study on the current cultivation of transgenic corn in Spain shows that Spanish farmers have clearly benefited from the crop.
- parched: How tenderly did Boaz reach her the parched corn.
- crushed: All the fish fell to soft pellet fished over small carp pellets and crushed corn.
- ripe: At its best in the middle of a field of ripe golden corn, it is also familiar from roadsides and verges.
Modifies a noun
- bunting: Corn Buntings may be seen singing on the fences.
- borer: Pest resistance The corn borer destroys up to 7 % of the world's maize harvest each year.
- miller: He was in partnership with George Bagshaw and was later listed as a corn miller at New Catton.
- starch: We look strange in the radio room all powdered down with corn starch.
- syrup: Corn syrup in formulas can also cause a problem.
- mill: The Brindley Mill is a working water powered corn mill built in 1752 by James Brindley.
Noun used with modifier
- Bt: Thus, the economic benefits of using Bt corn are not assured.
- fructose: I suspect no shopkeeper would take on the task of selling stuff without the old sucrose or high fructose corn syrup.
- biotech: It would also refute what appears to have been an overblown panic over the reported effect of biotech corn on the monarch.
- guinea: Nov 21 Fire About 3:00 a fire started down by Gregory ' s guinea corn farm.
She stood breast high amid the corn, Clasped by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
It was upon a Lammas night, When corn rigs are bonie, Beneath the moon's unclouded light, I held awa to Annie.
Corn rigs, an' barley rigs, An'corn rigs are bonie: I'll ne'er forget that happy night, Amang the rigs wi'Annie.
Weary men, what reap ye?öGolden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?öHuman corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldiersöwhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were deadö Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
Then come on, come on, and yield A savour like unto a blessed field, When the bedabbled morn Washes the golden ears of corn.
You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe on the Little Piney. His presence here isan insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.
Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn.
If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one isthe natural price of the other.
The farmers of Kansasmust raise less cornand morehell.
Sure there was wine Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn Before my tears did drown it. 398
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.
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