Corn vs. Horn

Cornnoun

The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.

Cornnoun

Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

Cornnoun

A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

Cornnoun

A small, hard particle.

Cornnoun

A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

Cornnoun

Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

Cornnoun

(uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

Cornverb

to granulate; to form a substance into grains

Cornverb

to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef

Cornverb

to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed

Cornverb

(transitive) to render intoxicated

Cornnoun

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

Cornnoun

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

Cornnoun

The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

Cornnoun

a tall cereal plant (Zea mays) bearing its seeds as large kernels in multiple rows on the surface of a hard cylindrical ear, the core of which (the cob) is not edible; - also called Indian corn and, in technical literature, maize. There are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white corn or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping. Corn seeds may be cooked while on the ear and eaten directly, or may be stripped from the ear and cooked subsequently. The term Indian corn is often used to refer to a primitive type of corn having kernels of varied color borne on the same cob; it is used for decoration, especially in the fall.

Cornnoun

The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.

Cornnoun

A small, hard particle; a grain.

Cornverb

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

Cornverb

To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.

Cornverb

To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.

Cornverb

To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.

Cornnoun

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

Cornnoun

the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

Cornnoun

ears of corn grown for human food

Cornnoun

a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

Cornnoun

annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

Cornnoun

whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

Cornnoun

something sentimental or trite;

Cornverb

feed (cattle) with corn

Cornverb

preserve with salt;

Cornnoun

the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats

Cornnoun

the grain of a cereal crop.

Cornnoun

another term for maize

Cornnoun

something banal or sentimental

Cornnoun

a small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure.

Corn

a cone-shaped and often painful inwardly directed callus of dead skin that forms at a pressure point near a bone, or on a weight-bearing part of the body.

Hornnoun

(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

Hornnoun

Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.

Hornnoun

An antler.

Hornnoun

(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

Hornnoun

An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.

Hornnoun

The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.

Hornnoun

(architecture) The Ionic volute.

Hornnoun

(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.

Hornnoun

(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.

Hornnoun

One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

Hornnoun

(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.

Hornnoun

An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

Hornnoun

A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

Hornnoun

A sound signaling the expiration of time.

Hornnoun

(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.

Hornnoun

Generally, any brass wind instrument.

Hornnoun

A telephone.

Hornnoun

An erection of the penis.

Hornnoun

A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

Hornnoun

(countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.

Hornnoun

(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

Hornverb

(of an animal) To assault with the horns

Hornverb

To cuckold

Hornnoun

A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

Hornnoun

The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

Hornnoun

Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form;

Hornnoun

An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

Hornnoun

Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

Hornnoun

One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

Hornnoun

The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Hornnoun

The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

Hornnoun

A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

Hornnoun

An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.

Hornnoun

the telephone; as, on the horn.

Hornnoun

a body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.

Hornverb

To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

Hornverb

To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

Hornnoun

a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

Hornnoun

one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

Hornnoun

a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

Hornnoun

a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

Hornnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Hornnoun

any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn

Hornnoun

the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

Hornnoun

an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

Hornnoun

a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

Hornnoun

a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

Hornverb

stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;

Hornnoun

a hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

Hornnoun

a woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros.

Hornnoun

a deer's antler.

Hornnoun

a projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g. a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl.

Hornnoun

a pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold.

Hornnoun

marital infidelity

Hornnoun

the substance of which horns are composed

Hornnoun

a receptacle made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask.

Hornnoun

a horn-shaped projection or object.

Hornnoun

a sharp promontory or mountain peak.

Hornnoun

Cape Horn.

Hornnoun

an arm or branch of a river or bay.

Hornnoun

each of the extremities of a crescent moon.

Hornnoun

an erect penis.

Hornnoun

a wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.

Hornnoun

short for French horn

Hornnoun

(in jazz and popular music) any wind instrument

Hornnoun

a device sounding a warning or other signal

Hornverb

(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns

Hornverb

be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife)