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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Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice..
Husky :: Husky (a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice..
Vetiver :: Vetiver (n.) An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus..
Husked :: Husked (a.) Covered with a husk.
Sapless :: Sapless (a.) Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.
Shell :: Shell (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling..
Grass :: Grass (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single..
Shuck :: Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut..
Husked :: Husked (a.) Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.
Husking :: Husking (n.) The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn..
Kex :: Kex (n.) A dry husk or covering.
Coir :: Coir (n.) A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut..
Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..
Sheal :: Sheal (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod..
Shealing :: Shealing (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell..
Angiocarpous :: Angiocarpous (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule..
Manna Croup :: Manna croup () The husked grains of manna grass.
Shale :: Shale (n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
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