Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COR-NIG'ER-OUS – COR-NU'TOR
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COR-NIG'ER-OUS, a. [L. corniger; cornu, a horn, and gero, to bear.]
Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. – Brown.
CORN'ING, ppr.
Sprinkling with salt.
CORN'ING-HOUSE, n.
A house or place where powder is granulated.
CORN'ISH, a.
Pertaining to Cornwall, in England; and as a noun, the language of Cornwall.
CORN'IST, n.
A performer on the cornet or horn.
CORN'LAND, n.
Land appropriated or suitable to the production of corn, or grain.
CORN'LESS, a.
Destitute of corn; as, cornless dwelling places. – Tooke's Russia.
CORN'LOFT, n.
An apartment for corn; a granary. – Sherwood.
CORN-MAR'Y-GOLD, n.
The popular name of a genus of plants, the Chrysanthemum.
CORN'MAS-TER, n.
One who cultivates corn for sale. [Not used.] – Bacon.
CORN'ME-TER, n.
One who measures corn.
CORN'MILL, n.
A mill for grinding corn, more generally called a grist-mill.
CORN'-PARS-LEY, n.
The popular name of a genus of plants, the Sison.
CORN'PIPE, n.
A pipe made by slitting the joint of a green stalk of corn. – Johnson.
CORN'-ROCK-ET, n.
The popular name of a genus of plants, the Bunias.
CORN'ROSE, n.
A species of poppy, or Papaver.
CORN'-SAL-LAD, n.
A plant, a species of Valeriana, whose top leaves are said to be a good sallad.
CORN'-SNAKE, n.
The Coluber guttatus of the southern United States.
CORN'STALK, n.
A stalk of corn, particularly a stalk of the maiz. – America.
CORN'U-AM-MO'NIS, n.
A shell like a ram's horn.
COR-NU-CO'PI-A, n. [L. cornu; a horn, and copia, plenty.]
- The horn of plenty, an emblem of abundance of fruits.
- In architecture and sculpture, the figure of a horn, from which fruits and flowers are represented as proceeding.
COR-NUTE', v.t. [L. cornutus, from cornu, a horn.]
To bestow horns; to cuckold. Burton.
COR-NUT'ED, pp. [or a.]
- Grafted with horns; horned; cuckolded.
- In botany, horn-shaped.
COR-NU'TO, n. [It.]
A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.
COR-NU'TOR, n.
A cuckold-maker. – Jordan.