Definition of "maiz" [maiz]

• A simplified (and former) spelling of maize. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Also, masa de maiz is made from corn treated with lime to give it that special yummy flavor."
• "On November 5, 1492, members of Christopher Columbus’s team in Cuba came across “a sort of grain they called maiz which was well tasted, bak’d, dry’d, and made into flour.”"
• "They likewife faw a variety of birds and sywl, among which were partridges and nightingales, but no quadrupeds, except thofe iilent dogs we have already mcDtioned: great part of the land was cul - tivated, and bore, befides the bread-root, and a fort of beans, a kind of grain called maiz, of which was made a very well tailed Aour."