Definition of Corn

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Definition of Corn

Corn

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

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.

A small, hard particle; 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; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.

To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.

To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.

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Corn Quotations

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
William Bernbach

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
Shel Silverstein

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Meriwether Lewis

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.
Michael Pollan

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.
Michael Pollan

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.
Michael Pollan

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael Pollan

Corn Translations

corn in Afrikaans is mielies
corn in Dutch is eksteroog, eelt, likdoorn
corn in Finnish is maissi
corn in German is Mais, Getreide
corn in Italian is mirino, granturco
corn in Norwegian is mais
corn in Portuguese is milho

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