ppl. a. U.S. Also lied. [f. LYE v.2 + -ED1.] Treated with lye; steeped or washed in an alkaline fluid. Lyed corn, maize or other grain steeped in weak lye to remove the husk.
1814. Brackenridge, Jrnl., in Views Louisiana, 202. Their food consists of lied corn homony for breakfast.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Wealth, 70. Pride can go without domestics;… can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn.
