Husk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.

   “A coconut has a very thick husk.”

2. isim Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.

   “His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.”

3. isim The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
4. fiil To remove husks from.
5. isim An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm

   “The symptoms of Husk are a constant cough, rapid loss of flesh, difficulty in breathing and, in the later stages, loss of appetite and diarrhœa.”

6. fiil To cough, clear one's throat.

   “Back on the veranda he said to Lace gravely, "I do believe that poor child's in the family way." Lace, tracing the pattern of the matting with his boot, husked, and murmured, "Yes — I think so.”

7. fiil To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

   “The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked, "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched.”

8. özel isim A surname.