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

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