Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The styles of Indian corn: same as silk, 4. Corn-silk is officially recognized under the pharmacopœial name zea as a mild stimulant diuretic.
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Examples
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Pink, close-fitting T-shirt, white jeans, corn-silk hair in long braids.
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Sergei with his corn-silk hair and bright blue eyes.
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Gedden stood back, his corn-silk dreads flying in the breeze like a wind sock, and deftly lifted the little chopper one, two, three feet off the ground.
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Before Mercedes became Aunt Mercy, there was Rosie with corn-silk hair who accompanied Tío Angel to the front yard barbecue.
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After Fiona got hold of her she lost a lot of her corn-silk hair and her arms were yanked from side to side until they were dramatically different lengths.
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Twisted through the corn-silk hair a threaded circlet of pale sapphires shone; but they were pale beside
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The corn-silk hair was caught within a wide-meshed golden net in which sparkled tiny brilliants, like blended sapphires and diamonds.
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The floating, beautiful head, crowned high with corn-silk hair, darted toward the Irishman.
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Standing now, the corn-silk hair slightly disordered and still blown about by the fan of some one near her, her eyes sparkling like stars in the dewdrops of wild wood-violets, warm, yet weary, and a flush deepening her cheek with color, while the flowers hung dead around her, she held a glass of wine and watched the bead swim to the brim.
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Perhaps the very sound that awoke him was the one he wished to shun; at the next step it became more distinct, -- a child's voice singing some tuneless song; and directly a tiny apparition appeared before him, as if it had taken shape, with its wide, light eyes and corn-silk hair, from the most wan and watery of sunbeams.
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