a. Forms: see KERNEL sb.1 [f. KERNEL sb.1 + -Y.]
† 1. Of flesh: Consisting of, or full of, glands; glandular. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. lxii. (MS. Bodl.), lf. 31/2. Þere is þre manere or flessche … þe þrid is curnely.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., C iij. The other is … cruddy and kyrnele.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde (1564), 46. Karnels and fatnesse spread abroade euery where on the karnelly body.
1548–77. Vicary, Anat., ii. (1888), 22. Glandulus, knotty, or kurnelly fleshe.
1683. A. Snape, Anat. Horse, I. xxiii. (1686), 49. These are glandulous, or kernelly.
† b. Containing granular concretions. rare–1.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 93. Þese ben þe tokenes of þe cankre … þe lippis ben grete, wan, or blak, hard, and wiþinne kirnely [v.r. kernelly].
2. Of the nature of, or like, a kernel.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 148. A Sow … her Throat [is never void] of Kernelly Apostems.
1667. Phil. Trans., II. 511. Kernelly and fleshy substances.
1840. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., I. IV. 384. A sweet kernelly taste.
Hence Kernelliness, ‘fulness of kernels’ (Bailey).
