Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Corm (n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
(2) - Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

(1) - Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
(2) - Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.

(1) - Corn (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
(2) - Corn (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
(3) - Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
(4) - Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
(5) - Corn (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
(6) - Corn (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
(7) - Corn (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
(8) - Corn (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
(9) - Corn (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

(1) - Corncob (n.) The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.