Husks
81threshold — [OE] The first element of threshold is identical with English thresh [OE]. This seems to go back ultimately to a prehistoric source that denoted ‘making noise’ (the apparently related Old Church Slavonic tresku meant ‘crash’, and Lithuanian has… …
82cornhusker — noun a worker who husks corn • Hypernyms: ↑worker * * * /kawrn hus keuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that husks corn. 2. (cap.) a Nebraskan (used as a nickname). [1840 50, Amer.; CORN1 + HUSK + ER1] * * * cornˈhusker noun A person or machine that… …
83brush broom — noun Etymology: brush (I) South & Midland : a broom made of small twiggy branches or corn husks tied together and used for outdoor sweeping the paths swept with a brush broom Ellen Glasgow * * * 1. Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom. 2. South… …
84husker-shredder — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : a power machine that husks corn ears and cuts up the husks and stalks for fodder …
85walnut husk fly — noun : any of several trypetid flies (especially Rhagoletis completa and R. suavis) whose larvae live in the husks of black and other walnuts * * * any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor… …
86UKẒIN — (Heb. עֻקְצִין; Stalks ), 12th and last tractate in the order Tohorot in the Mishnah and the Tosefta. There is no Gemara, either in the Babylonian or the Jerusalem Talmud. Ukẓin deals, in three chapters, with the problems of ritual impurity… …
87Agelena naevia — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …
88Agropyrum repens — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …
89Agrostis vulgaris — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …
90Algarovilla — Al ga*ro*vil la, n. The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree ({Inga Marth[ae]}). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. [1913 Webster] …
