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• Corn — is an English word dating back to Anglo Saxon times or earlier meaning cereal or grain. It commonly refers, in modern American usage, to Indian corn, that is, maize, but can also refer to wheat, barley, rye and so on.Early Modern English… …   Wikipedia

• corn|cob — «KRN KOB», noun. 1. the central, woody part of an ear of corn, on which the kernels grow in rows; cob. 2. Also, corncob pipe. a tobacco pipe with a bowl hollowed out of a piece of dried corncob, often polished on the outside …   Useful english dictionary

• corn — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a any cereal before or after harvesting, esp. the chief crop of a region: wheat, oats, or (in the US and Australia) maize. b a grain or seed of a cereal plant. 2 colloq. something corny or trite. v.tr. (as corned adj.) sprinkled… …   Useful english dictionary

• Corn Mother — ▪ religion also called  Corn Maiden         mythological figure believed, among indigenous agricultural tribes in North America (American Indian), to be responsible for the origin of corn (maize). The story of the Corn Mother is related in two… …   Universalium

• Corn rose — Rose Rose, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?, Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. {Copperas}, {Rhododendron}.] 1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus {Rosa}, of which there… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Indian pipe — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Smoking pipe (tobacco) — This article is about pipes used for smoking tobacco. For information about the practice of pipe smoking, see Pipe smoking. Parts of a pipe include the (1) bowl, (2) chamber, (3) draught hole, (4) shank, (5) mortise, (6) tenon, (7) stem, (8) bit… …   Wikipedia

• Calumet (pipe) — Peace pipe redirects here. For other uses, see Peace pipe (disambiguation). A Lakota (Sioux) chanunpa pipestem, without the pipe bowl, displayed at the United States Library of Congress A Calumet is a ceremonial smoking pipe used by some Native… …   Wikipedia

• Guinea corn — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• corncob pipe — corn cob pipe (k[^o]rn k[o^]b p[imac]p ), n. a pipe[3] for smoking tobacco with a bowl made from a corncob. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English