Broom corn
() A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made. |
Corn
(n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. |
Corn
(n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize |
Corn
(n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats. |
Corn
(n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field |
Corn
(n.) A small, hard particle |
Corn
(v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains |
Corn
(v. t.) To form into small grains |
Corn
(v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats |
Corn
(v. t.) To render intoxicated |
Crop
(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food |
Crop
(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. |
Crop
(n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season |
Crop
(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing. |
Crop
(n.) Anything cut off or gathered. |
Crop
(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting |
Crop
(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. |
Crop
(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting. |
Crop
(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. |
Crop
(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. |
Crop
(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of |
Crop
(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. |
Crop
(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop |
Crop
(v. i.) To yield harvest. |
Crop-ear
(n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped. |
Crop-eared
(a.) Having the ears cropped. |
Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Grain
(v. & n.) See Groan. |
Grain
(n.) A single small hard seed |
Grain
(n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves |
Grain
(n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc. |
Grain
(n.) The unit of the English system of weights |
Grain
(n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes |
Grain
(n.) The composite particles of any substance |
Grain
(n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. |
Grain
(n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. |
Grain
(n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. |
Grain
(n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation |
Grain
(n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. |
Grain
(a.) Temper |
Grain
(a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. |
Grain
(v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. |
Grain
(v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. |
Grain
(v. t.) To take the hair off (skins) |
Grain
(n.) To yield fruit. |
Grain
(n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization |
Grain
(n.) A branch of a tree |
Grain
(n.) A tine, prong, or fork. |
Grain
(n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. |
Grain
(n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. |
crop-dusting
spraying | the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) |
| corn dance | a rain dance of Amerindians |
winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes | small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere |
corn snake
red rat snake
Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
craw
crop | a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food |
corn borer European corn borer moth
corn borer moth
Pyrausta nubilalis | native to Europe, in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants |
| grain moth | moth whose larvae feed on grain |
angoumois moth
angoumois grain moth
Sitotroga cerealella | small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains |
| corn borer Pyrausta nubilalis | larva of the European corn borer moth, a serious pest of maize |
corn earworm
cotton bollworm
tomato fruitworm
tobacco budworm
vetchworm
Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
winter flounder
blackback flounder
lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
| corn exchange | an exchange where grains are bought and sold |
| crop | the stock or handle of a whip |
| crop | the output of something in a season, the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores |
riding crop
hunting crop | a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates |
| corn | something sentimental or trite, that movie was pure corn |
| texture grain | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance), breadfruit has the same texture as bread, sand of a fine grain, fish with a delicate flavor and texture, a stone of coarse grain |
| grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric, saw the board across the grain |
wood grain
woodgrain
woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
| grain | the smallest possible unit of anything, there was a grain of truth in what he said, he does not have a grain of sense |
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics | an Olympics for winter sports |
| corn gluten | gluten prepared from corn |
| corn gluten feed | a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten |
| corn chowder | chowder containing corn |
| corn sugar | dextrose used as sweetening agent |
| candy corn | a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn |
| corn pudding | pudding made of corn and cream and egg |
| corn fritter | fritter containing corn or corn kernels |
bully beef
corned beef
corn beef | beef cured or pickled in brine |
| corn oil | oil from the germs of corn grains |
| corn cake | baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland) |
| skillet corn bread | cornbread usually containing ham or bacon bits and cooked in a skillet |
ashcake
ash cake
corn tash | corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern) |
corn dab
corn dodger
dodger | small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) |
| corn muffin | cornbread muffin |
| corn flake | crisp flake made from corn |
| corn chip | thin piece of cornmeal dough fried |
| winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months |
| winter crookneck squash | a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck |
corn
edible corn | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food |
sweet corn
green corn | corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft |
| winter cress | cress cultivated for winter salads |
| winter melon | the fruit of the winter melon vine, a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well |
| lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
| feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
grain
food grain
cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
winter savory
winter savoury | resinous leaves used in stews and stuffings and meat loaf |
| corn syrup | syrup prepared from corn |
moonshine
bootleg
corn liquor | whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash |
corn whiskey
corn whisky
corn | whiskey distilled from a mash of not less thanpercent corn |