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▪ I. corned, a.1|kɔːnd| [f. corn n.1 and v. + -ed.] 1. Formed into grains or particles; granulated.
1577Harrison England iii. vi. (1878) ii. 38 [Honey] white as sugar, and corned as if it were salt. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 32 Powder, be it serpentine or corned powder. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 94 They begin..to take the corned salt from the rest of the brine. 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 57 The corned powder should be spread upon a table and bruised, and the saltpetre sifted over it. 2. Of meat: Preserved or cured with salt; salted.
1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i. 66 Beef..corned, young, of an Ox. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvem. (1746) 149 If you eat it [pork] corned, yet is it of gross Juice and speedy Corruption. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 203 Slices of good wheat bread, and corned pork. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Corned-meat, flesh slightly salted, intended for early use, and not for keeping for any time. 1881Daily Tel. 28 Jan., The corned beef was exceedingly tender and cooked to a turn. †3. Covered with a crop of corn. Obs. rare—1.
a1631Donne Epigrams (1652) 98 Glebes which..Now the Dutch Plowman sees wel corn'd and sheav'd. 4. Bearing seeds or grains; having the seeds developed.
1800Phil. Trans. XC. 47 The beans and peas, which were thin, though pretty well corned. 1861Times 10 Oct., Beans are this year well corned, though rather short in the straw. 1885H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wand. 170 Sasangai grass (which has a long and many-corned ear). 5. slang. Intoxicated. [Cf. corny a.1 2, 4.]
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Corned, drunk. 1825–79Jamieson s.v. Corn v. 2 ‘Thae lads are weel corned’. 1839Marryat Dairy Amer. Ser. i. II. 230 When a man is tipsy (spirits being made from grain), they generally say he is corned. 1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Corned, slightly drunk. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Corned, full of drink, intoxicated. ▪ II. † corned, a.2 Obs. [f. F. corné horned, with substitution of Eng. suffix -ed.] 1. Horned, peaked, pointed.
a1529Skelton Mann. World 26 So many garded hose, Such cornede shoes. a1592Greene Poems, Descr. Chaucer (Rtldg.) 320 His shoes were cornèd broad before. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind., The corned crest. 2. In comb. = cornered.
1564Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 146 b, Fower-corned cappes. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 78 In mans body more than six humdred muscles, as long muscles..plain or eeven corned. ▪ III. † corned, a.3 Obs. [f. corn n.2 + -ed2.] Of the feet: Having corns.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 182 Whens come cornde crooked toes? From short shapen shoone. |