Husk
[hʌsk]
Definition
(noun.) outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds.
(verb.) remove the husks from; 'husk corn'.
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
(v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
Typed by Clyde
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rind, bark, hull, glume, CHAFF, outer covering.
v. a. Strip off the husk from (as from Indian corn).
Edited by Bertram
Definition
n. the dry thin covering of certain fruits and seeds: (pl.) refuse waste.—v.t. to remove the husk or outer integument from.—adj. Husked covered with a husk: stripped of husks.—ns. Husk′er one who husks Indian corn esp. at a husking-bee; Husk′ing the stripping of husks: a festive gathering to assist in husking Indian corn (maize)—also Husk′ing-bee.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- He is plain; there is a husk upon him, a dry shell, and he will wear it till he is near twenty, then he will put it off. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The crab begins by tearing the husk, fiber by fiber, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It would at first be thought quite impossible for a crab to open a strong cocoanut covered with husk, but Mr. Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They thus secured their food, and accumulated s urprising quantities of the picked fibres of the cocoanut husk, on which they rest as a bed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And I will give the missionary my energies--it is all he wants--but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The criticism I am making is of those who try to feed upon the husks alone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The fibrous husks of cocoanuts are prepared in such a way as to form cellulose, which is used for the protection of warships, preventing the inflow of water through shot holes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These I heated before the fire, as well as I could, and rubbed them till the husks came off, which I made a shift to winnow from the grain. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was touching unconsciously the dead husks of flowers as he passed by, and talking disconnectedly to himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then one needn't assert anything--' He stood still, looking at the water, and throwing upon it the husks of the flowers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Randolph