▪ I. corned, a.1
(kɔːnd)
[f. corn n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Formed into grains or particles; granulated.
| 1577 Harrison England iii. vi. (1878) ii. 38 [Honey] white as sugar, and corned as if it were salt. 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 32 Powder, be it serpentine or corned powder. 1679 Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 94 They begin..to take the corned salt from the rest of the brine. 1828 J. 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.
| 1621–51 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i. 66 Beef..corned, young, of an Ox. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvem. (1746) 149 If you eat it [pork] corned, yet is it of gross Juice and speedy Corruption. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 203 Slices of good wheat bread, and corned pork. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Corned-meat, flesh slightly salted, intended for early use, and not for keeping for any time. 1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan., The corned beef was exceedingly tender and cooked to a turn. |
† 3. Covered with a crop of corn. Obs. rare—1.
| a 1631 Donne 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.
| 1800 Phil. Trans. XC. 47 The beans and peas, which were thin, though pretty well corned. 1861 Times 10 Oct., Beans are this year well corned, though rather short in the straw. 1885 H. 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.]
| 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Corned, drunk. 1825–79 Jamieson s.v. Corn v. 2 ‘Thae lads are weel corned’. 1839 Marryat Dairy Amer. Ser. i. II. 230 When a man is tipsy (spirits being made from grain), they generally say he is corned. 1877 E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Corned, slightly drunk. 1879 G. 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.
| a 1529 Skelton Mann. World 26 So many garded hose, Such cornede shoes. a 1592 Greene Poems, Descr. Chaucer (Rtldg.) 320 His shoes were cornèd broad before. 1841 Catlin N. Amer. Ind., The corned crest. |
2. In comb. = cornered.
| 1564 Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 146 b, Fower-corned cappes. 1651 Raleigh'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.
| 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 182 Whens come cornde crooked toes? From short shapen shoone. |