husky

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Hoarse or rough in quality: a voice husky with emotion.
2. adj. Resembling a husk.
3. adj. Containing husks.
4. adj. Strongly built; burly.
5. adj. Heavily built: clothing sizes for husky boys.
6. n. A husky person.
7. n. A dog of a breed developed in Siberia for pulling sleds and having a dense, variously colored coat. Also called Siberian husky.
8. n. A similar dog of Arctic origin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Abounding with, consisting of, or resembling husks; hence, poor, unprofitable, etc.
2. Dry in the throat; hoarse; harsh; sounding roughly: said of the voice or utterance.
3. n. A kind of dog used in drawing sleds in the Hudson's Bay territory.
4. n. Rough and big; rough and energetic; burly: as; a husky fellow.
5. n. A ‘husky’ fellow; an energetic man; a hustler.
6. n. An Eskimo.
7. n. The Eskimo language.

Wiktionary

1. adj. of a voice hoarse and rough-sounding
2. adj. of a person burly, thick; fat, overweight
3. n. Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
2. adj. Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous.
3. adj. Colloq., U. S. Powerful; strong; burly.
4. n. archaic An Eskimo.
5. n. archaic The Eskimo language.
6. n. an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
2. adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
3. adj. muscular and heavily built