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aicorn, aikcorn, aikoarn, aikorn, airse-corn, coarn, corinkist, corn, corn$t, corn_kist, corned, cornin, cornin-time, cornit, cornkist, corn-kist, cornkister, corn-kister, corn-laft, corn-pipe, corns, cornt, cornyaird, corn-yard, escorn, hummelcorn, hummel-corn, korn, lea-corn,
corn [kɔrn, koːrn]
n. A single seed, grain of oats or barley, a small quantity of anything granular.
v. To feed a horse with oats.
pt. pp. cornit, cornt adj. Exhilarated with intoxicants.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
erse-corn: [NN.a. ɛskɔrn] A straw wisp used by fisherwomen to support the creel on the rump.
bruised corn: Pounded oats.
cornin-time: Mealtime.
corn kist: A chest or bin for storing grain, a farm-servant's trunk.
corn-kister: A farm-worker's song.
corn-laft: A grain loft.
corn-pipe: A toy music-pipe made from an oat-stem.
cornyaird: A stackyard.
guiss-corn: The rye brome Bromus secalinus.
hairy corn: NEC. Barley.
hummel-corn: Awnless, not bearded grain etc. poor, mean, shabby.
cornal, cornel,
cornel [ˈkoːrnəl]
n. A colonel.
coarner, coarnered, coarnert, coarnir, coarnired, coarnirt, corner, cornered, cornert,
corner [ˈkɔrnər, ˈkoːrnər]
n. A corner.
v. To corner.
pt. pp. cornert, cornered
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
caip and corner: Diagonally.
creeks and corners: Nooks and crannies.
play corners-change-corners: To play at puss-in-the-corner, to play fast and loose.
cornet, cornett,
cornet [ˈkɔrnə, ˈkɔrnɛt]
n. The standard-bearer at the borders' riding of the marches.
corenoch, coronach, cronach, cronachie, croonach, goranichy, groanach, gronach, schroynoch, screnoch, scroinach, scroinoch, scroinogh, scron, scronach, scronachin, scroneugh, scronnach, scronnoch, scruinnich, scrunnich, scrynoch, skronach,
coronach [ˈkɔrənəx, ˈkronəx, ˈgronəx]
n. A lament for the dead, a dirge, either sung or played on the bagpipes.
 
also SN. MN. with prothetic s scronach [ˈskronəx]
n. A shrill cry, yell, scream, shriek, an outcry, loud fuss or lamentation, a din. A noisy person.
v. To shriek, yell, scream, cry out. To make a great outcry or fuss, to grumble peevishly, grouse.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
scronachin: SN. MN. A fuss. adj. Peevish.
corp, corp-lifter, corps, corpse,
corp [kɔrp, korp]
n. A corpse.
pl. corpse
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
corp-lifter: A body-snatcher.
corporate [ˈkoːrpəret]
adj. arch. Corporal.
correc, correck, correct, correction,
correct [kɔrɛk(t)]
adj. Correct.
v. To correct.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
correction: Correction.
correspond [kɔrəˈspɔnd]
v. To answer, respond.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
correspondin: Communicate by exchanging letters.
coire, correi, corri, corrie, corry,
corrie [ˈkɔrɪ]
n. A hollow in a hill-side, a hollow between hills.

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