Definition of corn

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Corn (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..

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Pop :: Pop (v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well..
Socome :: Socome (n.) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.
Ear :: Ear (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well..
Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
Cowfish :: Cowfish (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish..
Cornucopia :: Cornucopia (n.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Drip :: Drip (n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water..
Endogenous :: Endogenous (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk..
Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..
Curculio :: Curculio (n.) One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc..
Clavicorn :: Clavicorn (n.) One of the Clavicornes.
Quercite :: Quercite (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol..
Fork :: Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn..
Angiocarpous :: Angiocarpous (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule..
Nock :: Nock (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.
Mast :: Mast (n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns..
Johnnycake :: "Johnnycake (n.) A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked..
Angle :: Angle (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
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