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Corn of sand." Bp. Hall. "A corn of powder." Beau & Fl. Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bri…

mprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Burril.

or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker.

mon huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.

In the direction of the edge. [Obs.] Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson.

Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery. A. Tucker.

That which is obvious, public, or common. Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker.

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. Dryden. To force the tyrant from his seat by war. Sahk. Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. Fuller.

small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the la…

lium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species. Meadow fescue, pasture and hay. Festuca elatior. Meadow foxtail, pasture, h…

). Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden.

A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.

A believer in hylozoism. A. Tucker.

y, adv. The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it. A. Tucker.

distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.

To exist within; to dwell within. [Obs.] Substances inexisting within the divine mind. A. Tucker.

That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.

lity of being inharmonious; want of harmony; discord. The inharmoniousness of a verse. A. Tucker.