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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 162 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORN (a See also:common See also:Teutonic word; cf. See also:Lat. granum, See also:seed, See also:grain)  , originally meaning a small hard particle or See also:grain, as of See also:sand, See also:salt, See also:gunpowder, &c . It thus came to be applied to the small hard See also:seed of a plant, as still used in the words See also:barley-See also:corn and See also:pepper-corn . In See also:agriculture it is generally applied to the seed of the cereal See also:plants . It is often locally understood to mean that See also:kind of cereal which is the leading See also:crop of the See also:district; 1 According to See also:Willoughby it was formerly the See also:custom to carry the See also:cormorant hooded till it was required; in See also:modern practice the. See also:bearer wears a See also:face-See also:mask to protect himself from its See also:beak.thus in See also:England it refers to See also:wheat, in See also:Scotland and See also:Ireland to oats, and in the See also:United States to See also:maize (See also:Indian corn) . See . GRAIN See also:TRADE; CORN See also:LAWS; AGRICULTURE; WHEAT; MAIZE; &C .

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