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Producing horns; forming horn.

Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. [R.] "The corny ear." Prior.

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.

A product from cottonseed, used as lard.

cal measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.

he force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.

substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

indication. (Med.) Same as Contraindication. -- Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaula…

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden

A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.]

A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." Howitt.

A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. -- Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.

To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.

or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.