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

Shuck :: Shuck (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc..

Husking :: Husking (n.) The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn..

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..

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..

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

Coat :: Coat (n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek..

Bee :: Bee (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee..

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

Husk :: Husk (v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn..

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

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..

Shell :: Shell (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping..

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

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

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..

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

Unshale :: Unshale (v. t.) To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover..

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

Enucleate :: Enucleate (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell..

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