corn thistle

A name for Carduus arvensis. corn-thripe, s. Entom.: A minute insect, Thrips cerealium. It is of the order Physopoda. It often does damage to the wheat crop by gnawing either the ear or the ten der stem. IMG:content-0973.png:[blocks in formation] Entom.: A weevil, Calandra granaria , the larva of which feeds on corn in granaries. [CALANDRA.] corn (2), s. [Fr. corne a horn, from Low Lat, a horn, a Lat. a horn.] corny projection at or and.com vital importance to our navy as the development of Kruppized armor and smokele powder. A cellulose belt of three feet in thickne may be said to be as efficient as at first is only a thickening of the skin proa six-inch belt of steel. By this means 100 tons les duced by pre ure over a projecting portion of lose becomes equivalent to 1,000 tons of armor. It bone. Afterward there is a tendency for a bursa does not stop the projectile; it simply allows it to go clear to arise. This sometimes deposits pus and sup through both sides of the ship, if it can, while the holes purates, producing much pain. Corns may be made in the ship's side close up as if the shell had gone divided into soft, which are generally situated through a sponge. The new battleships, Illinois, between the toes, and hard, on more exposed parts Kearsarge, Alabama, and Kentucky, which have been launched this year, have this protection, and it is being put on other battleships now building. The corn- pith cellulose was discovered by Mr. M. W. Marsden, who brought it to the notice of the Navy Department."Henry W. Cramp in New York Journal, Oct. 29, 1898.