corn

corn is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
2. noun. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
3. noun. The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. A small, hard particle; a grain.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
8. transitive verb. To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
9. transitive verb. To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
10. noun. something sentimental or trite

    "that movie was pure corn"

11. noun. ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
12. noun. whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
13. 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

    Synonyms: maize

14. noun. (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
15. noun. the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
16. noun. a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

    Synonyms: clavus

17. verb. preserve with salt

    "corned beef"

18. verb. feed (cattle) with corn

Synonyms

maize, clavus

Common word forms

corns, corned, corner, corning, cornless

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