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Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. Cornish chough. See Chough. -- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

A loft for corn; a granary.

A cornemuse.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. [Colloq. U.S.]

A stalk of Indian corn.

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.

Cuckolded. [R.] "My being cornuted." LEstrange.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.