CORN (a

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• COMMON

common

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic word; cf.

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• LAT

Lat. granum,

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• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed,

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• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain)  , originally meaning a small hard particle or grain, as of sand, salt, 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 plants . It is often locally understood to mean that kind of cereal which is the leading crop of the district; 1 According to Willoughby it was formerly the custom to carry the cormorant hooded till it was required; in modern practice the. 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 United States to maize (Indian corn) . See . GRAIN TRADE; CORN LAWS; AGRICULTURE; WHEAT; MAIZE; &C .