Definition of husk

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Husk (n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize..

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Siliculose :: Siliculose (a.) Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky..
Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice..
Kex :: Kex (n.) A dry husk or covering.
Shale :: Shale (n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..
Cornshuck :: Cornshuck (n.) The husk covering an ear of Indian corn.
Cod :: Cod (n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod..
Husking :: Husking (n.) A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called als.
Skin :: Skin (n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
Unshale :: Unshale (v. t.) To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover..
Unhusked :: Unhusked (a.) Not husked; having the husk on.
Shuck :: Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut..
Granary :: Granary (n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain..
Shell :: Shell (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping..
Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press..
Mat :: Mat (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes..
Husk :: Husk (n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize..
Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A husk. See Husk, 2..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..
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