Definition of corn

"corn" in the noun sense

1. corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays

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

2. corn

the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

3. corn, edible corn

ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

4. corn, clavus

a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

5. corn

Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region

6. corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn

whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

7. corn

something sentimental or trite

"that movie was pure corn"

"corn" in the verb sense

1. corn

feed (cattle) with corn

2. corn

preserve with salt

"corned beef"

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Quotations for corn

No corn without chaff. [ Dutch Proverb ]

In much corn is some cockle. [ Proverb ]

Look at your own corn in May,
And you'll come weeping away. [ Proverb ]

Broken sacks will hold no corn. [ Proverb ]

A long harvest and a little corn. [ Proverb ]

Such a blush
In the midst of brown was born
Like red poppies grown with corn. [ Hood ]

Much corn lies in the chaff unseen. [ Proverb ]

Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]

To put our sickle into another man's corn. [ Proverb ]

Measure not other's corn by your own bushel. [ Proverb ]

If I had had no plough, you had had no corn. [ Proverb ]

If the brain sows not corn it plants thistles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The heaviest head of corn hangs its head lowest. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]

A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. [ Proverb ]

The busy brain, that sows not corn, sows thistles. [ Proverb ]

Sparrows fight for corn, which is none of their own. [ Proverb ]

Corn is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear. [ Proverb ]

In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The poor man has his corn destroyed by hail every year. [ Proverb ]

The corn hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastenings. [ George Herbert ]

He that hath good corn may be content with some thistles. [ Proverb ]

Keep your plough jogging, so you have corn for your horses. [ Proverb ]

He'll find money for mischief when he can find none for corn. [ Proverb ]

He that sows in the highway tires his oxen, and loses his corn. [ Proverb ]

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]

It is not the husbandman, but the good weather, that makes the corn grow. [ Proverb ]

As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. [ Bacon ]

A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him. [ Pierre Leroux ]

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. [ Molinos ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]

Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons or serious discourses, are like the red and blue flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. [ Swift ]

Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]

corn in Scrabble®

The word corn is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters corn:

CORN
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The 78 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In corn

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corn in Words With Friends™

The word corn is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters corn:

CORN
(48)
 

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Word Growth involving corn

Shorter words in corn

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Longer words containing corn

acorn acorns

barleycorn barleycorns

broomcorn broomcorns

cornball

cornbread cornbreads

corncake corncakes

corncob corncobs

corncockle corncockles

corncrake corncrakes

corndog corndogs

cornea corneal sclerocorneal

cornea corneas

cornea megalocornea

corned scorned outscorned

corneocyte corneocytes

corneocytic

corner cornerback cornerbacks

corner cornered sharpcornered

corner cornering

corner corners cornerstone cornerstones

corner corners scorners

corner cornerways

corner cornerwise

corner scorner scorners

cornet cornetfish cornetfishes

cornet cornetist cornetists

cornet cornets

cornet cornett cornettini

cornet cornett cornettino

cornet cornett cornettist cornettists

cornet cornett cornetto cornettos

cornet cornett cornetts

cornfield cornfields

cornflake cornflakes

cornflies

cornflour

cornflower cornflowers

cornfly

cornhusk cornhusker cornhuskers

cornhusk cornhusking cornhuskings

cornhusk cornhusks

cornice cornicen

cornice cornices

cornicines

cornier

corniest

cornily

corniness

corning scorning outscorning

corning scorning scorningly

cornless

cornmeal

cornmill

cornmongered

cornmongerer cornmongerers

cornmongeries

cornmongering

cornmongers

cornmongery

cornpipe cornpipes

cornrow cornrows

corns acorns

corns barleycorns

corns broomcorns

corns cornsilk cornsilks

corns cornstalk cornstalks

corns cornstarch

corns cornstone cornstones

corns peppercorns

corns popcorns

corns scorns outscorns

corns unicorns

cornu cornua bicornuate

cornu cornua unicornuate

cornu cornucopia cornucopian

cornu cornucopia cornucopias

cornu cornucopia cornucopiate

cornu cornum

corny peppercorny

membranocorneous

oncornaviruses

peppercorn peppercornish

peppercorn peppercorns

peppercorn peppercorny

picornavirus picornaviruses

popcorn popcorns

scorn outscorn outscorned

scorn outscorn outscorning

scorn outscorn outscorns

scorn scorned outscorned

scorn scorner scorners

scorn scornful scornfuller

scorn scornful scornfullest

scorn scornful scornfully

scorn scornful scornfulness

scorn scorning outscorning

scorn scorning scorningly

scorn scornproof

scorn scorns outscorns

unicorn unicorns

unicorn unicornuate