husk

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The outer membranous or green envelope of some fruits or seeds, as that of a walnut or an ear of corn.
2. n. A shell or outer covering, especially when considered worthless.
3. n. A framework serving as a support.
4. v. To remove the husk from.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The external covering of certain fruits or seeds of plants; the glume, epicarp, rind, or hull; in the United States, specifically, the outer covering of an ear of maize or Indian corn.
2. n. Something resembling a husk, or serving the purpose of husks, as the membranous covering of an insect, or (sometimes) the shells of oysters.
3. n. Figuratively, the outer covering of anything; that which incloses or conceals the reality or the essential part; hence, in the plural, refuse; waste.
4. n. The frame which supports a run of millstones.
5. To strip off the external integument or covering of.
6. To open or shuck, as oysters.
7. n. The greater dogfish, Scylliorhinus canicula.
8. Dry; parched.
9. n. Huskiness.
10. n. A company of hares.
11. n. Corn-meal bran.
12. n. A cup-shaped form composed of short leaves, common in Greek, Roman, and Renaissance decoration, from which rinceaux and other motives usually start. There are about 84 of these starting-points.
13. n. The verminous bronchitis of cattle, found particularly in calves, and caused by roundworms belonging to the species Metastrongylus micrurus.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
2. n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
3. n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
4. v. transitive To remove husks from.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
2. n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
3. v. To strip off the external covering or envelope of.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
2. n. outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
3. v. remove the husks from