Corn is a plant that grows long ears of kernels on tall, grass like stalks. Many large farms grow fields of corn each year, for human or animals to eat, or to make corn based products.
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
Noun
something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"
Noun
ears of corn grown for human food
Noun
whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
Noun
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
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
Noun
the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
Noun
a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
Verb
preserve with salt; "corned beef"
Verb
feed (cattle) with corn
n.
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the
toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
n.
A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and
maize; a grain.
n.
The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for
food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
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.
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.
v. t.
To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn
gunpowder.
v. t.
To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn
horses.
v. t.
To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Corn
Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.
Corn
In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn.4.
Corn
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
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;
Usage Examples
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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