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A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn. Up stood the cornu reed. Milton.

See Acorn-shell.

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

Furnished or loaded with acorns.

The bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

A grain or "corn" of barley.

To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.

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.

A private corner. Britain being a by-corner, out of the road of the world. Fuller.

ters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

Having hollow horns.

A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

One of the Clavicornes.