A crop of cereal-producing plants; grain as sown or grown; also [quot.Henley Husb.], a crop of cereals or peas; cornescroft, a croft where grain is grown; -- (a) collect.sg.; (b) pl.

A plant of one of the cereals.

A cereal crop; grain as reaped, threshed, winnowed, or ground; grain as marketed or stored; grain as eaten; -- (a) collect.sg.; (b) pl.

Fig. (a) The desired product of anything, something worthy, the best portion; (b) virtue, good; the virtuous, the good, the elect.

(a) A species or variety of cereal plant or grain; hard cornes, ?wheat, rye, and barley; (b) wheat; commun ~, ~ and grein.

A single grain of wheat or other cereal; a kernel or seed; -- (a) simply; (b) ~ of whet, whet ~, wheten ~; (c) fig. [said of Christ].

(a) Any of various cereal kernels used as a standard of measure for weight or length; (b) ~ dish, ~ trei, ?a dish or tray for various small apothecary weights and measures.

Compounds & combs.: (a) ale ~, grain for making ale (see ale n., 4.(b)); bred ~, grain for making bread (see bred n.(1), 1.(c)); ~ arke, a bin for storing grain; ~ bon, an extra service in harvesting grain required by a feudal lord of his tenants; ~ beier a grain merchant; ~ bitere, ?; ~ bole, a best sheaf levied at harvest time; ~ bote, q.v.; ~ chapman, grain merchant; ~ chepinge, a place where grain is marketed, corn market; (b) ~ er, an ear of grain; ~ fed, fed with oats; ~ feld, a grain field; ~ flor, an open space for threshing grain; ~ garner, a granary; ~ grinding; ~ hill, place name; (c) ~ lode, the service of carting grain; ~ loder, one who loads grain; ~ lond, grain-growing land; ~ man, a municipal officer charged with supervision of dealings in grain, or one who deals in grain; ~ market; ~ metere, one who measures grain; ~ miln, a mill for grinding grain; ~ mongere, one who deals in grain; ~ plente, abundance of grain; (d) ~ sak, a sack for grain; ~ seller; ~ shovel; ~ stak, a stook of sheaves of grain; ~ stal; ~ thresher; ~ wanting, dearth of grain; ~ wastel, bread made of the finest wheat flour; ~ worm; ~ yer.

The seed or fruit of any of various plants; a pip (of an apple), a corn (of pepper), a berry (of juniper), a date (of a palm), a grape (in a cluster), a bean (of a castor-oil plant).

An enlarged gland, or other morbid formation, of rounded form; ?a sty in the eye.