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# corn

«corn» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **grain, wheat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

grain, wheat

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The seeds of grain plants, used as food for people and animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/corn/#m1)

### how it differs from today

In the USA corn means maize. In these sentences it means grain in general, such as wheat, and the sentences use that old sense.

### examples

- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. (Torah GEN.42.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/corn/#x1)
- "Who sowed this sort of corn?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/corn/#x2)
- And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. (Torah GEN.42.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/corn/#x3)

### primary record

corn

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 305 (Torah 34, tales 271, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 4.9 (Torah alone 11.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1359/)
- [And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1361/)
- [And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1363/)
- [And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1387/)
- [Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.665/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «corn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/corn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.