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Husky :: Husky (a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice..

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..

Unhusked :: Unhusked (a.) Having the husk removed; without husk.

Husked :: Husked (a.) Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.

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

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

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

Hull :: Hull (v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk..

Paddy :: Paddy (n.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.

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..

Corndodger :: Corndodger (n.) A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers..

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

Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A husk. See Husk, 2..

Cod :: Cod (n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod..

Sowens :: Sowens (n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England..

Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice..

Siliculose :: Siliculose (a.) Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky..

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

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

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..

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