Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of corn is as below...

Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..

Balanoid :: Balanoid (a.) Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle..

Cutworm :: Cutworm (n.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths..

Epitithides :: Epitithides (n.) The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

Cornea :: Cornea (n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Spicose :: Spicose (a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes..

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.

Scaraboid :: Scaraboid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and many similar lamellicorn beetles..

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae..

Caligo :: Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself..

Disdain :: Disdain (v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

Triangulate :: Triangulate (v. t.) To make triangular, or three-cornered..

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..

Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest..

Indian :: Indian (a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like..

Weathered :: Weathered (a.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill..

Entablature :: Entablature (n.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice..

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

Kinnikinic :: Kinnikinic (n.) Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi)..

Random Fonts

Most Popular