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. Sea-men, 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 Improv. (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., 1/2. 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., 10/1. Beans are this year well corned, though rather short in the straw.
1885. H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., 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, Diary 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. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Corned, full of drink, intoxicated.
