Rice

[raɪs]

Definition

(noun.) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.

(noun.) United States playwright (1892-1967).

(noun.) English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944).

(noun.) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper.

(verb.) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; 'rice the potatoes'.

Edited by Dorothy--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

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Definition

n. one of the most useful and extensively cultivated of grains like oats when ripe.—ns. Rice′-bird the reed-bird: the paddy bird or Java sparrow; Rice′-bis′cuit a sweet biscuit made of flour mixed with rice; Rice′-dust Rice′-meal the refuse of rice a valuable food for cattle; Rice′-field-mouse the rice-rat; Rice′-flour a ground rice for puddings for a face-powder &c.; Rice′-glue a cement made by boiling rice-flour in soft water; Rice′-hen the common American gallinule; Rice′-milk milk boiled and thickened with rice; Rice′-pā′per a white smooth paper made by the Chinese from the pith of Fatsia (Aralia) papyrifera a tree peculiar to Formosa; Rice′-plant′er an implement for sowing rice; Rice′-pound′er a rice-mill; Rice′-pudd′ing a pudding made of rice and milk sweetened often with eggs raisins &c.; Rice′-soup a soup of rice with flour &c.; Rice′-stitch an embroidery-stitch resembling rice in grain; Rice′-wa′ter water in which rice has been boiled—a nourishing drink for invalids; Rice′-wee′vil a weevil that destroys stored rice &c.

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