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

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..

Depilate :: Depilate (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.

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

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..

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

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

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..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..

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

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

Cupule :: Cupule (n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc..

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

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

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

Algarovilla :: Algarovilla (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye..

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

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

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

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..

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