corn > define

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, Indian corn, Zea mays
The dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal.
Ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food.
- synonyms: edible corn
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
Great Britain. ( any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region-wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland))
Whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn.
- synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky
Something sentimental or trite.
- usage: "that movie was pure corn"

(v.t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
(n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
(n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, especially on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
(v.t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
(n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
(v.t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
(v.t.) 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.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary