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Husk

noun

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble.

Outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds.

verb

(past & past part. husked; pres. part. husking)

Remove the husks from. Synonym: shell.

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... are necessary to the human welfare. These elements are in the husk of the wheat and the husk is taken off in making flour, and ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... John Milton, and Martin Luther will be good enough company for the most of us. The cornshocks standing in the fields to-day will not sigh dismally when the buskers leap over the fence, and throwing their arms around the stack, swing it to the ground. It is only to take the golden ear from the husk. Death to the aged Christian is only husking-time, and then the load goes in from the frosts to ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... said the constable, breaking off an ear, and stripping the husk carelessly from the golden grain, "the rows are even as a girl's teeth, the grain plump and full as her heart I say, uncle Nathan, why didn't you invite me to the husking? I'm great ...

— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... man And give yourself with the high heart of youth More lavishly than a queen gives anything. But when a woman gives herself She must give herself for ever and have faith; For woman is a thing of a season of years, She is an early fruit that will not keep, She can be drained and as a husk survive To hope for reverence for what has been; While man renews himself into old age, And gives himself according to his need, And women more unborn than his next child May take him yet with youth And lose him ...

— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... powers, too, at this moment, seemed to have gone from him like a husk. He did not argue or deduce; simply he understood. And, in a flash, simultaneous with the whole vision, he perceived that he was behind all the slow processes of the world, by which this is added to that, and a conclusion ...

— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

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