v. [f. L. cornū horn + -FY.]
† 1. trans. To fit with ‘horns’; to cuckold. Obs.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 405. If she [my wife] were fair, she might perhaps cornifie me.
2. Phys. and Zool. To turn into horn or horny substance. Hence Cornified ppl. a.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat., V. 498. These cornified plates.
1872. Huxley, Physiol., xii. 278. Coalesced and cornified cells.
