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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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Husky :: Husky (n.) Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

Sapless :: Sapless (a.) Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.

Shuck :: Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut..

Cornshuck :: Cornshuck (n.) The husk covering an ear of Indian corn.

Shealing :: Shealing (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell..

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..

Husked :: Husked (a.) Covered with a husk.

Shude :: Shude (n.) The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Kex :: Kex (n.) A dry husk or covering.

Flight :: Flight (n.) The husk or glume of oats.

Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..

Unhusked :: Unhusked (a.) Not husked; having the husk on.

Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) The state of being husky.

Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc..

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..

Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Husking :: Husking (n.) A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called als.

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..