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m of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.

ace projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type. "In Roman, f and j are the only kerned letters." MacKellar.

in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel Shak.

Having a kernel.

Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. Holland.

Clownish; booorish. [Obs.] "A petty kernish prince." Milton.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

The cocoanut.

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc. [Obs.]

The European moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]

Full of small kernels like a grape.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.]

olumn, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

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

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

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.