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Husked   Listen
adjective
Husked  adj.  
1.
Covered with a husk.
2.
Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Husked" Quotes from Famous Books



... superior beauty of the Carolina rice, seducing the eye of those purchasers who are attached to appearances, the demand for it was upon the whole as great as for that of Piedmont. They supposed this difference of quality to proceed from a difference of management; that the Carolina rice was husked with an instrument that broke it more, and that less pains were taken to separate the broken from the unbroken grains, imagining that it was the broken grains which dissolved in oily preparations; that the Carolina rice costs somewhat less than that ...
— The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) • Thomas Jefferson
... the scene I want you to look in upon, as, in fancy, I do now—and here are the materials for it all, husked ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
... to be eaten, not to be drank, To be husked in a barn, not soaked in a tank; I come as a blessing when put in a mill, As a blight and a curse when run through a still. Make me up into loaves, and your children are fed; But made into drink, I will starve them instead. In bread I'm a servant ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg


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