† brantcornn.
Obsolete.
Blight, smut ( Uredo segetum).
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xvii. 471 Blight or Brantcorne..insteede of a good eare, there cometh up a black burnt eare, ful of blacke dust or powder.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 335 Brant corne and trees blacke by blasting. View more context for this quotation
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