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

Anancient 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.

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Pertaining to the cornea.

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

Same as Carnelian.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. Sir T. Browne.

ace in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

The chief ornament. [Obs.] Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.

1 Having corners or angles.

With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.