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Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

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 several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

One of the Clavicornes.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

See Coehorn.

A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. R. S. Poole.

painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

ient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

A cornemuse. [Obs.]

A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus. [Prov. Eng.]

The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow. [U.S.]

pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

A crib for storing corn.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.