huskn.¹

Brit.

/hʌsk/, U.S.

/həsk/

Etymology: Late Middle English huske, of uncertain origin. A common word since c1400, of which no earlier trace has been found. Conjectures have been offered of its relationship to German hülse, Dutch hulze, huls, which (notwithstanding the identity of sense) appear to be historically and phonetically untenable, and of its ultimate derivation < hús ‘house’, which is perhaps possible: compare for the form, chink, dalk, halk, holk, polk, stalk (and see Kluge, Stammbildung §61); for the sense, Low German hûske = German häuschen, ‘little house’, in East Frisian also ‘core (of an apple)’, ‘case’ (e.g. spectacle-case), ‘paper bag’; also Middle Dutch huuskijn, huusken, Dutch huisken, ‘little house’, core (of an apple); German gehäuse, ‘case, capsule’, etc. The connection of Norwegian husk ‘piece of leather used to enlarge a shoe-last’, is quite uncertain.

a. The dry outer integument of certain fruits and seeds; esp. the hard fibrous sheath of grain, nuts, etc.; a glume or rind; spec. in U.S., the outer covering of an ear of maize or Indian corn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun]

huskc1400

hosea1450

pannicle1672

surfoil1672

squama1738

palea1753

spatha1753

pelt1759

pelta1760

spath1763

bract1771

scale1776

spathe1785

scalelet1787

glume1789

ramentum1793

rament1813

paleola1829

bracteole1830

bractlet1835

glumelle1836

palea1836

pale1847

periphyll1858

bracket1860

glumella1861

glumellule1861

lodicule1864

bract-sheath1870

palet1871

palea1875

pale1890

prophyllum1890

hypsophyll1895

pale1900

prophyll1902

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > covering or skin

pillc1300

huskc1400

shell1561

tunicle1601

parchment1682

tunic1760

seed coat1776

aril1785

testa1796

perula1825

spermoderm1841

endopleura1842

test1846

arillode1854

tegmen1857

c1400 Mandeville xxi. (1839) 188 As the Note of the Haselle hathe an Husk with outen.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) 94 Þe macez er þe huskes of þe nutemuge.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 254/2 Huske of frute, or oþer lyke, corticillus.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 97 Y^e huske whiche is aboute the grayn.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. cliv. sig. Tvii/1 Codde and an huske [a1398 BL Add. hulke] hyght Siliqua.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xv. (R.) To fil his bealie..with the verai huskes and coddes, wherwith the hogges were fedde.

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Luke xv. 16 The huskes [ Wycl., Tind., Coverd. coddis, coddes] that the swyne ate.

1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 36 The Chesnut..is covered with a sharpe huske, and within it hath a red huske.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 156 Carret seeds are like a cleft of a Coco-Nut Husk.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Verdegrease The Husks of pressed Grapes.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. iv. 87 The malt is parched until it has acquired a slight tinge of yellowness on the husk.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xiii. 176 The women who in Autumn Stripped the yellow husks of harvest.

†b. The calyx or involucre of a flower. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > calyx

husk1530

impalement1672

perianthium1687

foot husk1688

calyx1693

coffin1727

vase1728

flower-cup1756

perianth1785

calyx-segment1870

hull1883

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 210 Whyche floure yf he se yt not yet sprynge oute of the huske.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Husk, among Botanists, the Part which a Flower grows out of... Of these there are several Kinds, as bulbous or round Husks, Bottle Husks, middle Husks, Foot Husks, Hose Husks, &c.

c. Husks collectively, husky matter.

ΚΠ

1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 233 By about the twenty-fourth day the wine was ready for clearing of the husk.

1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 234 The sweet wine had already no husk in it.

2. Applied to animal coverings or shells:

†a. The coriaceous wing-case of an insect; an elytron. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Byttel flye with a blacke huske.

b. The shell or case of a chrysalis; a cocoon. ? archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > cocoon

clew1599

cod1600

husk1600

patella1671

follicle1681

dop1700

scabbard1714

cone1774

cocoon1815

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxxviii. 630 Euerie one [silkworm] shutting vp himselfe in his scale or husk, which they make and build vp in two daies.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xii. 226 A good bait is the young brood of Wasps or Bees, baked or hardned in their husks .

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 187 Several of them flew away in Gnats, leaving their husks behind them in the water floating under the surface.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 215 They seem cover'd, upon the upper side of them, with a small husk, not unlike the scale, or shell of a Wood-louse.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xix. 355 The..chrysalis..also, in its turn, dies; its dead and brittle husk falls to pieces, and makes way for the appearance of the fly or moth.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 116 I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk.

c. In Georgia, U.S.: an oyster shell.

3. technical. Applied to a frame of various kinds: see quots.

ΚΠ

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 100/2 Husk is a square Frame of Moulding..set over the Mantle Tree of a Chimney between two Pillasters.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1143/1 Husk (Milling), the supporting frame of a run of millstones.

4. transferred and figurative.

a. The outside or external part of anything; mostly in depreciatory sense, the mere rough or worthless exterior, as contrasted with the substantial inner part or essence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > that which is merely external

husk1567

outside1648

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > the outside or exterior > external aspect as opposed to internal

rindeOE

barkc1374

shell1377

husk1567

cortex1660

swarth1807

without1899

1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) v. vi. f. 143^v That..the bitternesse and hardnes of his [Death's] roughe huske, should hynder vs from the swete taste of suche a comfortable curnell.

1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy iii. 10 A few huskes of reason.

1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie xvi. 39 Their acquiescing in God's choice should be the pith and kernel of the precept, and the setting up of a King onely the husk and shell of it.

1841 R. W. Emerson Friendship in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 202 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk, in which a delicate organisation is protected from premature ripening.

1861–8 J. R. Lowell Emerson in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 355 He..gave us ravishing glimpses of an ideal under the dry husk of our New England.

1887 W. H. Stone Harveian Orat. 21 The mere reproduction of the dry husks of thought termed words.

b. Applied to the human body.

ΚΠ

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 251 May not our Soul..challenge a good share of our time..or shall this mortal husk engross it all?

a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 102 It is a matter of perfect indifference to me what becomes of this little ugly husk of mine, when once I shall have ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’.

†c. Applied to a person. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A4 You keepe too great a house..Yon same drie throated huskes Will sucke you vp.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. F4 Bra. Iu...How like you the new Poet Mellidus? Bra. Sig. A slight bubling spirit, a Corke, a Huske.

d. A figure or ornament somewhat resembling a husk.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments

pommela1300

crest1430

finial1448

balloon1592

brattishingc1593

knob1610

cartouche1611

ogive1611

fret1626

galace1663

acroterion1664

paternoster1728

semi-urn1742

patera1776

purfling1780

sailing course1807

vesica piscis (also piscium)1809

antefix1819

vesica1820

garland1823

stop1825

Aaron's rod1830

headwork1831

Vitruvian scroll1837

hip knob1838

stelea1840

ball-flower1840

notch-head1843

brandishing1846

buckle1848

cat's-head1848

bucrane1854

cresting1869

semi-ball1875

canephorus1880

crest-board1881

wave pattern1905

husk1934

foliate head1939

green man1939

1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xv/2 The tablet is carved with festoons, and the frieze and jambs inlaid with festoons and pendants of husks and coloured marble.

1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 285 Husk, with ‘honeysuckle’ ‘wheat-ear’ a favourite ornament on furniture of the Adam and Hepplewhite periods.

1971 Country Life 3 June 1356/3 The ground paint was decorated with motifs such as festoons of drapery and husks, interlacing hearts, urn patterns, and so on.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (From 1).

husk-porridge n.

ΚΠ

1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxvi. 69 To see the people swallow hot Husk-porridge which his chartered churchmen stir.

husk-like adj.

ΚΠ

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 60 Flowers with valves like grasses, and husk-like calyxes.

c. ‘In the husk’.

husk corn n.

ΚΠ

1687 S. Sewall Diary 3 Oct. (1973) I. 151 Husk Corn.

husk nut n.

ΚΠ

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 5/2 The husk nuts piled on the top.

d. (From 4d).

husk design n.

ΚΠ

1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. vii. 191 The sides are inlaid with the.. husk design so popular at this time.

1973 Country Life 31 May 1567 Chestnut wood window seats..the..legs..faced by well carved husk design.

husk festoon n.

ΚΠ

1770 J. Wedgwood Let. 20 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 94 First, his Majesty approved of the husk festoons in particular, and I think more so than the desert pattern.

husk ornament n.

ΚΠ

1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. 165/1 The back shows the honeysuckle, husk or catkin ornament.

1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 146/2 Husk ornament, an ornamental motif resembling the husk of a wheat ear used continually by architects and craftsmen during the Adam period.

husk pattern n.

ΚΠ

1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1911) I. 485 A good set of Wedgewood, husk pattern.

C2.

husk-hackler n. ‘a machine for tearing corn-husks into shreds for stuffing for mattresses, pillows, cushions, etc.’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

Draft additions June 2018

husk tomato n. the tomatillo plant, genus Physalis (family Solanaceae); the fruit of such a plant, which is thought to resemble a small tomato in a papery husk.

ΚΠ

1855 Weekly Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 13 Feb. The husk Tomato is a new and distinct variety; in looks and flavor entirely unlike the tomato in common use.

1962 E. Gibbons Stalking Wild Asparagus (1970) 102 The Ground Cherry..is a member of the Nightshade Family closely related to the tomato. It is also called Bladder Cherry, Husk Tomato, Strawberry Tomato and Dwarf Cape Gooseberry.

2013 M. Rubin Tomatoes 7 Perhaps tomatoes initially were accepted because they resembled what we know today as the tomatillo, or husk tomato, which is..thought to have been native to Mexico.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	husk
释义	huskn.¹ Brit. /hʌsk/, U.S. /həsk/ Etymology: Late Middle English huske, of uncertain origin. A common word since c1400, of which no earlier trace has been found. Conjectures have been offered of its relationship to German hülse, Dutch hulze, huls, which (notwithstanding the identity of sense) appear to be historically and phonetically untenable, and of its ultimate derivation < hús ‘house’, which is perhaps possible: compare for the form, chink, dalk, halk, holk, polk, stalk (and see Kluge, Stammbildung §61); for the sense, Low German hûske = German häuschen, ‘little house’, in East Frisian also ‘core (of an apple)’, ‘case’ (e.g. spectacle-case), ‘paper bag’; also Middle Dutch huuskijn, huusken, Dutch huisken, ‘little house’, core (of an apple); German gehäuse, ‘case, capsule’, etc. The connection of Norwegian husk ‘piece of leather used to enlarge a shoe-last’, is quite uncertain. 1. a. The dry outer integument of certain fruits and seeds; esp. the hard fibrous sheath of grain, nuts, etc.; a glume or rind; spec. in U.S., the outer covering of an ear of maize or Indian corn. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun] huskc1400 hosea1450 pannicle1672 surfoil1672 squama1738 palea1753 spatha1753 pelt1759 pelta1760 spath1763 bract1771 scale1776 spathe1785 scalelet1787 glume1789 ramentum1793 rament1813 paleola1829 bracteole1830 bractlet1835 glumelle1836 palea1836 pale1847 periphyll1858 bracket1860 glumella1861 glumellule1861 lodicule1864 bract-sheath1870 palet1871 palea1875 pale1890 prophyllum1890 hypsophyll1895 pale1900 prophyll1902 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > covering or skin pillc1300 huskc1400 shell1561 tunicle1601 parchment1682 tunic1760 seed coat1776 aril1785 testa1796 perula1825 spermoderm1841 endopleura1842 test1846 arillode1854 tegmen1857 c1400 Mandeville xxi. (1839) 188 As the Note of the Haselle hathe an Husk with outen. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) 94 Þe macez er þe huskes of þe nutemuge. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 254/2 Huske of frute, or oþer lyke, corticillus. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 97 Y^e huske whiche is aboute the grayn. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. cliv. sig. Tvii/1 Codde and an huske [a1398 BL Add. hulke] hyght Siliqua. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xv. (R.) To fil his bealie..with the verai huskes and coddes, wherwith the hogges were fedde. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Luke xv. 16 The huskes [ Wycl., Tind., Coverd. coddis, coddes] that the swyne ate. 1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 36 The Chesnut..is covered with a sharpe huske, and within it hath a red huske. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 156 Carret seeds are like a cleft of a Coco-Nut Husk. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Verdegrease The Husks of pressed Grapes. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. iv. 87 The malt is parched until it has acquired a slight tinge of yellowness on the husk. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xiii. 176 The women who in Autumn Stripped the yellow husks of harvest. †b. The calyx or involucre of a flower. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > calyx husk1530 impalement1672 perianthium1687 foot husk1688 calyx1693 coffin1727 vase1728 flower-cup1756 perianth1785 calyx-segment1870 hull1883 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 210 Whyche floure yf he se yt not yet sprynge oute of the huske. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Husk, among Botanists, the Part which a Flower grows out of... Of these there are several Kinds, as bulbous or round Husks, Bottle Husks, middle Husks, Foot Husks, Hose Husks, &c. c. Husks collectively, husky matter. ΚΠ 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 233 By about the twenty-fourth day the wine was ready for clearing of the husk. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 234 The sweet wine had already no husk in it. 2. Applied to animal coverings or shells: †a. The coriaceous wing-case of an insect; an elytron. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Byttel flye with a blacke huske. b. The shell or case of a chrysalis; a cocoon. ? archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > cocoon clew1599 cod1600 husk1600 patella1671 follicle1681 dop1700 scabbard1714 cone1774 cocoon1815 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxxviii. 630 Euerie one [silkworm] shutting vp himselfe in his scale or husk, which they make and build vp in two daies. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xii. 226 A good bait is the young brood of Wasps or Bees, baked or hardned in their husks . View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 187 Several of them flew away in Gnats, leaving their husks behind them in the water floating under the surface. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 215 They seem cover'd, upon the upper side of them, with a small husk, not unlike the scale, or shell of a Wood-louse. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xix. 355 The..chrysalis..also, in its turn, dies; its dead and brittle husk falls to pieces, and makes way for the appearance of the fly or moth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 116 I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk. c. In Georgia, U.S.: an oyster shell. 3. technical. Applied to a frame of various kinds: see quots. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 100/2 Husk is a square Frame of Moulding..set over the Mantle Tree of a Chimney between two Pillasters. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1143/1 Husk (Milling), the supporting frame of a run of millstones. 4. transferred and figurative. a. The outside or external part of anything; mostly in depreciatory sense, the mere rough or worthless exterior, as contrasted with the substantial inner part or essence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > that which is merely external husk1567 outside1648 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > the outside or exterior > external aspect as opposed to internal rindeOE barkc1374 shell1377 husk1567 cortex1660 swarth1807 without1899 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) v. vi. f. 143^v That..the bitternesse and hardnes of his [Death's] roughe huske, should hynder vs from the swete taste of suche a comfortable curnell. 1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy iii. 10 A few huskes of reason. 1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie xvi. 39 Their acquiescing in God's choice should be the pith and kernel of the precept, and the setting up of a King onely the husk and shell of it. 1841 R. W. Emerson Friendship in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 202 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk, in which a delicate organisation is protected from premature ripening. 1861–8 J. R. Lowell Emerson in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 355 He..gave us ravishing glimpses of an ideal under the dry husk of our New England. 1887 W. H. Stone Harveian Orat. 21 The mere reproduction of the dry husks of thought termed words. b. Applied to the human body. ΚΠ a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 251 May not our Soul..challenge a good share of our time..or shall this mortal husk engross it all? a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 102 It is a matter of perfect indifference to me what becomes of this little ugly husk of mine, when once I shall have ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’. †c. Applied to a person. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A4 You keepe too great a house..Yon same drie throated huskes Will sucke you vp. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. F4 Bra. Iu...How like you the new Poet Mellidus? Bra. Sig. A slight bubling spirit, a Corke, a Huske. d. A figure or ornament somewhat resembling a husk. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xv/2 The tablet is carved with festoons, and the frieze and jambs inlaid with festoons and pendants of husks and coloured marble. 1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 285 Husk, with ‘honeysuckle’ ‘wheat-ear’ a favourite ornament on furniture of the Adam and Hepplewhite periods. 1971 Country Life 3 June 1356/3 The ground paint was decorated with motifs such as festoons of drapery and husks, interlacing hearts, urn patterns, and so on. Compounds C1. General attributive. (From 1). a. husk-porridge n. ΚΠ 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxvi. 69 To see the people swallow hot Husk-porridge which his chartered churchmen stir. b. husk-like adj. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 60 Flowers with valves like grasses, and husk-like calyxes. c. ‘In the husk’. husk corn n. ΚΠ 1687 S. Sewall Diary 3 Oct. (1973) I. 151 Husk Corn. husk nut n. ΚΠ 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 5/2 The husk nuts piled on the top. d. (From 4d). husk design n. ΚΠ 1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. vii. 191 The sides are inlaid with the.. husk design so popular at this time. 1973 Country Life 31 May 1567 Chestnut wood window seats..the..legs..faced by well carved husk design. husk festoon n. ΚΠ 1770 J. Wedgwood Let. 20 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 94 First, his Majesty approved of the husk festoons in particular, and I think more so than the desert pattern. husk ornament n. ΚΠ 1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. 165/1 The back shows the honeysuckle, husk or catkin ornament. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 146/2 Husk ornament, an ornamental motif resembling the husk of a wheat ear used continually by architects and craftsmen during the Adam period. husk pattern n. ΚΠ 1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1911) I. 485 A good set of Wedgewood, husk pattern. C2. husk-hackler n. ‘a machine for tearing corn-husks into shreds for stuffing for mattresses, pillows, cushions, etc.’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). Draft additions June 2018 husk tomato n. the tomatillo plant, genus Physalis (family Solanaceae); the fruit of such a plant, which is thought to resemble a small tomato in a papery husk. ΚΠ 1855 Weekly Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 13 Feb. The husk Tomato is a new and distinct variety; in looks and flavor entirely unlike the tomato in common use. 1962 E. Gibbons Stalking Wild Asparagus (1970) 102 The Ground Cherry..is a member of the Nightshade Family closely related to the tomato. It is also called Bladder Cherry, Husk Tomato, Strawberry Tomato and Dwarf Cape Gooseberry. 2013 M. Rubin Tomatoes 7 Perhaps tomatoes initially were accepted because they resembled what we know today as the tomatillo, or husk tomato, which is..thought to have been native to Mexico. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). huskn.² Brit. /hʌsk/, U.S. /həsk/ Etymology: In sense 1 of uncertain origin; possibly < husk n.¹: compare also husk v.²; in sense 2 apparently a back-formation < husky adj.¹ 4. 1. A disease affecting cattle: see quots. ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle in J. Britten Old Country & Farming Words (E.D.S.) (1880) Gloss. Observ. Husb. 62 Hassacks, a disease affecting the throat. The result of worms in the bronchial tubes; called also Husk, Hosk, and Hoose. 1756 F. Nicholls in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 247 The husk..is a disease, to which bullocks are very subject, while young... The creature is seized with a short dry cough, by which he is perpetually teized. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 230 Some of my hogs..were affected with a violent cough vulgarly called the husk. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 210 In oxen, sheep and swine, the disorders called the foul, the rot, and the husk will be perpetuated from generation to generation. 1892 Wiltsh. Co. Mirror 5 Aug. 1/6 Mixture for Pigs..intended to cure Colds, Lameness, Husk, Worms. 2. Huskiness. ΚΠ 1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall i. 10 Clearing the husk in his throat with two or three hems. 1887 Daily News 23 July 6/7 [It] brings a husk to the father's voice as they shake hands in a last ‘good-bye’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † huskn.³ Obsolete. the dogfish: see huss n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). huskadj. Brit. /hʌsk/, U.S. /həsk/ Etymology: Apparently a back-formation < husky: but compare hask adj. British regional. Dry, parched; = husky adj.¹ ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Husk..(3) Dry; parched. Linc. Compounds husk-voiced adj. ΚΠ 1876 S. Lanier Clover in Poems 24 Nor Dick husk-voiced upbraids The sway-back'd roan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). huskv.¹ Brit. /hʌsk/, U.S. /həsk/ Etymology: < husk n.¹ transitive. To remove the husk from, to deprive of the husk. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark bipilc1230 unrinda1382 slipe?c1390 hull1398 pill1440 husk1562 flay1574 unhusk1598 decorticate1611 depilate1620 rind1623 excorticate1657 disbark1659 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 57^v The germanes husk millet and eat it with milk. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 567 Pistores were those..who husked and cleansed the bearded red wheat. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 53 Pepper..when dried it is black, and husked white. 1737 J. Edwards Wks. (1834) I. 363/1 The children were..husking Indian corn. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 42 The maize is afterwards husked in the field, at leisure. 1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 182 The rough dresses of the men..out of which they husk themselves. 1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. 138 They are husking rice, a very laborious process. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 199 Go husk this whimpering thief..: Winnow him out 'twixt star and star, and sieve his proper worth. 1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xviii. 110 He determined to husk Meeker's body from its immortal soul. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). huskv.² Brit. /hʌsk/, U.S. /həsk/ Etymology: Goes with husk n.² 1. intransitive. Of cattle: To cough as when suffering from the ‘husk’. local. ΚΠ 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 354 They [bullocks] were all observed to husk soon after being purchased. 2. intransitive. Of the voice: to be or to become husky. Π 1922 H. Titus Timber xxix. 254 Her voice husked for the first time. 1958 Sunday Times 29 June 11/1 The birds sing louder than the crooner husking from the loudspeaker. Derivatives husking n. Π 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 133 Sicknesse of the Loonges is..a short husking, and thrusting out the tongue withall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1400n.²a1722n.³adj.1847v.¹1562v.²1577
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