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husk
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A husk is the outer shell or coating of a seed. Husk may also refer to: Husk (comics) , a Marvel Comics fictional character Husk (film) , a 2011 horror film Husk, a disease affecting cattle caused by Dictyocaulus viviparus The term husk is sometimes used ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Husk \Husk\ (h[u^]sk), n. [Prob. for hulsk, and from the same root as hull a husk. See Hull a husk.] 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 ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff , shuck , stalk , straw , stubble ] outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
Usage examples of husk.
They are for unhappy people, like me, who must learn to distil by learned patience the aurum potabile from the husks of life, the peace which happier mortals find lying like manna each morn upon the meadows.
They usually blundered around in the area between the fences until the early morning sun or an SO-17 flame-thrower reduced their lifeless husk to a cinder, and released the tormented soul to make its way through eternity in peace.
As found in grains, it is mixed with a certain amount of vegetable fibre, covered with husks, or skin, and has the little germ or budlet of the coming plant inside it.
Five hundred pounds of hard copy, a bunch of comp husks, and a pile of robot parts.
Napkins folded like silken husks sprouted dewy-fresh cymbidium orchids.
I am an old man, broken by sickness, disheartened by misfortune, daunted by tribulation - a mere husk cast aside by Fortune, whilst you are lovely as one of the angels about the Throne of Heaven.
I had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks.
A hail of bullets ripped through a group of tables and chairs close by, shredding the husked corpses seated there, and sending fountains of splinters and broken crockery into the air.
Even her breath seemed to have gained weight, husking out of her throat with an effort.
Laughing Water Went rejoicing from the wigwam, With Nokomis, old and wrinkled, And they called the women round them, Called the young men and the maidens, To the harvest of the cornfields, To the husking of the maize-ear.
The trudging husk of Elminster returned to a place of rocks and trees where Nergal had gnawed the dripping bones of Marane and dashed his mind-slave repeatedly against rocks.
He took the corn husk and dumped the masa mixed with broth and chile sauce back into the bowl.
Paddy, or Paddee, is Rice from which the husk has not been removed before crushing.
Threshing consists in beating the ears with thick sticks to loosen the husks, after which the padi is carried in baskets to platforms ten feet above the ground, and is allowed to fall on mats, when the chaff is driven away by the wind.
The risible husk of her logic rang with a laugh she was too scared to voice.