corn

Plural: corns

Noun

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
• the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
• (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
• something sentimental or trite
  • "that movie was pure corn"
• Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
• Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
• A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
• A small, hard particle.
• A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
• Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
• Money.
• A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
• 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.
• Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
• pornography; porn

Verb

• feed (cattle) with corn
• preserve with salt
  • "corned beef"
• To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
• To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
• To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
• To render intoxicated.
• To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
• -ED, -ING, -S to preserve with salt

Examples

• "ale strong enough to corn one"
• "Corn the horses."
• "He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley."
• "to corn gunpowder"

Synonyms

clavus, corn whiskey, corn whisky, edible corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays, corn snow

Related Words

barley, cereal, grain, maize, oats, rye, wheat