Corn

Indian corn, once called “Turkish corn”; maize; the S. African “mealies.”

1697.  A Fleet of Pereagoes laden with Indian Corn, Hog, and Fowls.—Dampier, ‘Voyage’ (1698), i. 40. (N.E.D.)

1774.  H.  They [the country people] live upon coarse bread made of rye and corn mixed, and by long use they learn to prefer this to flour or wheat bread.
  K.  What corn?
  H.  Indian corn, or, as it is called in Authors, Maize.
  K.  Ay, I know it. Does that make good bread?
  H.  Not by itself, Sir; the bread will soon be dry and husky; but the Rye keeps it moist.—Dialogue bet. Thomas Hutchinson and George III., July 1: ‘Hutchinson’s Diary,’ i. 171 (1883).

1817.  The growers of “corn” (Indian corn) and other grain, sell at this season regularly, under the knowledge that it will as regularly advance to double the price before the next harvest.—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ p. 161 (Phila.).

1840–88.  See ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN.