Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. The horn of plenty, an emblem of abundance of fruits.
2. 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.]

1. Grafted with horns; horned; cuckolded.
2. 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.