a. Fed on grain; fig. well-fed.
1576. Gascoigne, Steele Gl. (Arb.), 73. Than cornfed beasts whose bellie is their God.
1598. Deloney, Jacke Newb., viii. 104. My folkes are so corne fed that we have much adoe to please them in their diet.
1638. Penkethman, Artach., I iij b. An Ox stalled or Corne fed, 24s. a grasse fed Ox 16s.
1889. Farmer, Dict. Amer., 170/2. A woman is popularly said to be corn-fed when stout and plump—an allusion to the nourishing qualities of this kind of food [Indian corn].
