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unˈhusk, v.
[un-2 5.]
1. trans. To divest of husk or shell; † to clean (a fish) of spines.
1598Florio, Diliscare, to vnhuske or clense fish from bones. 1602Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) III. 812 It must bee beaten in a morter, to vnhuske it. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 202, I have sown a little French Barley and Rice seed and am thinking on a way of un-husking them. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii. 145 The Bean is not seen till..it be unhuskt. 1808–14A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 288 Unhusking the seed from the burr in a twinkling. 1884R. Walker Five Threes 79 The nuts..are then split open with an axe (not unhusked).
2. fig. To strip of a covering or disguise; to lay open, expose.
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden S iv, I would we might know her, and see her vnhu[s]kt and naked once. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. i, He began By policy to open and unhusk me About the time and common rumour. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 390 All the good wee doe, comes from God, by whose pardon wee are unhusked of the old man, sinne. 1892Sat. Rev. 17 Dec. 719/1 The ‘Comic Spirit’ may puzzle him... You have got but to unhusk and unshell it, and there it is.
Hence unˈhusking vbl. n.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Decortication,..the peeling, or unhusking of Roots, Seeds, Fruits, &c. 1756T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. II. 78 The way used by them for the unhusking of rice. |