hushaby 
hushaby (hush'a-bi), inter/. [< hush + -alj, a 
mere termination, as in lullaby, rockulj.~\ Hush: 
a word used in lulling children to sleep. 
Hushaby [var. roekaby\ baby, in the tree-top. 
Nursery rime. 
hushaby (hush'a-bi), a. [< huxhaby, inter}.] 
Tending to quiet or lull. Eclectic Rev. 
hush-bagaty (hush'bag"a-ti), . [Of. hustfl.'] 
The lump-fish or sea-owl', Cycloptcrus lumjiua. 
Also called hush-puddle. See cut under Cyt'to/i- 
tcrus. Day, Fishes of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, I. 181. 
bushel (hush'el), . An old, worn-out person 
or implement. [Scotch.] 
The Galloway huxhel. Carlylf, in Froude. 
hushert, . An obsolete form of wilu-r. 
hush-money (hush'mun'i), n. A bribe to pro- 
cure silence ; money paid to prevent disclosure 
or exposure. 
A dexterous steward, wben bis tricks are found, 
lliixh-uionei/ sends to all the neighbours round. 
hush-paddle (hush'pad'l), . Same as linxh- 
bagaty. [Prov. Eng.] 
hushtt (husht), a. [< ME. Jmssht, hoscht, hust, 
huyst, whist, in form pp. of husshen, hush, v., 
but partly interjectional : see the quotations, 
and husht, interj., hush, hist 1 , whist 1 , etc.] Still ; 
silent; whist; hushed. 
I your moder am withoute lese ; 
But ye must kepe this mater husht and pece. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 320. 
Agad, I'm In Love up to the Ears. But I'll be discreet, 
and husht. Congreve, Old Bachelor, iv. 10. 
hushtt (husht), interj. [< ME. husht, etc.: see 
husht, a., and cf. hush, interj.] Hist; whist. 
Cla. What are you, pray? what are you? 
Rod. Huiht a friend, a friend. 
Atiddleton and Rowley, Spanish Gypsy, !. 3. 
11 a slit: My brother, sir, for want of education, sir, 
somewhat nodding to the boor, the clown. 
/;. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. 
hushtlyt, adv. [< husht, a., + -, 
mutely. 
Verely I shal then speake vnto you huishtlie and with 
out woordes, but I shal speake assured and manifest 
thinges if so bee ye aske them. J. Udall, On John xvi. 
hushtnesst, >*. [< husht, a., + -ness.'] Silence; 
stillness. 
A general! kusht-nesxe hath the world possest. 
Beywood, Troia Britannica (1609). 
husk 1 (husk), n. [< ME. husk, huske = Norw. 
husk = Sw. dial, hysk, hosk = Dan. dial, hiisken ; 
prob. for orig. *hulsk = MD. hulsche = MHG. 
huldsche, hulsche, a husk, hull, a later form (with 
orig. term, -s, -se, 
conformed to -sch, 
-sche, AS. -sc, E. 
-sh) of MD. hulse, 
D. hulze = OHG. 
hulsa, MHG. hulse, 
hiilse, G. hulse, a 
husk, hull ; the 
same, with added 
term., as AS. hulu, 
EJiull 1 : see hull 1 .] 
1. The external 
covering of certain 
fruits or seeds of 
plants; the glume, 
epicarp, rind, Or Husk of Indian Com, stripped down 
hull ; in the United about thc ear ' 
States, specifically, the outer covering of an 
ear of maize or Indian com. 
Huski 
Wherein the acorn cradled. 
Shot., Tempest, i. 2. 
The seed, to shut the wasteful! Sparrows out, 
(In Haruest) hath a stand of Pikes about, 
And Chaffle Husks in hollow Cods inclose-it. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
Fruit of all kinds, in coat 
Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell. 
Milton, P. L., v. 342. 
Through husks that, dry and sere, 
Unfolded from their ripened charge, shone out the yellow 
ear. Whittier, The Huskers. 
[The " husks " mentioned in the parable of the prodigal son 
were carob-pods, which are long, thin, and husky, but con- 
tain much mucilaginous and saccharine matter, and art- 
fed to domestic animals in Syria and elsewhere. 
And he would fain have filled his belly with the hutks 
that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16.] 
2. Something resembling a husk, or serving 
the purpose of husks, as the membranous cov- 
ering of an insect, or (sometimes) the shells of 
oysters. 
This [chrysalis] also in its turn dies; its dead and brit- 
tle husk falls to pieces, and makes way for the appearance 
of the fly or moth. Paley, Nat. Tlieol., xix. 
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To-day I saw the dragon fly 
i 'mne from the wells where he did lie. 
An inner impulse rent the veil 
of his old busk: from head to tail 
Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
3. Figuratively, the outer covering of any- 
thing; that which incloses or conceals tin- 
reality or the essential part; hence, in the plu- 
ral, refuse ; waste. 
The very hvxks and shells of sciences, all the kernel 
being forced out and expulsed. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 243. 
And your fair show shall suck away their souls, 
Leaving them but the shales and husks of men. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. 2. 
Decrees of councils, elaborate treatises of theologians, 
creeds, liturgies, and canons, are all but the husks of re- 
ligious history. Lecky, Europ. Morals, IL 120. 
4. The frame which supports a run of mill- 
stones Capillary husk, an envelop or investment of 
capillaries in the spleen. = Syn. 1. Hull, etc. See skin, n. 
husk 1 (husk), v. t. [< husk 1 , H.] 1. To strip 
off the external integument or covering of. 
Being thoroughly husked and cleansed, grind it into 
meal as is aforesaid. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 7. 
Then in the golden weather the maize was husked. 
Longfellou', Evangeline, ii. 4. 
2. To open or shuck, as oysters. [Georgia.] 
husk 2 (husk), n. [< ME. husk, huske (see quot. ) ; 
cf. OF. hwse, a dogfish; cf. also hush-bagaty, 
hush-paddle.] The greater dogfish, Scylliorhi- 
ii a" eanicula. 
Huske [var. husk], fyshe, squamus [var. sguarus]. 
Prompt. Pare. 
husk s (husk), a. [Var. of hask, dry, rough, 
harsh: see hask 1 . Cf.husky^.] Dry; parched. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
husk 3 (husk), M. [(husky^.] Huskiness. [Rare.] 
"Really, gentlemen," said the Reverend Doctor Gaster, 
after clearing the husk in his throat with two or three 
hems, " this is a very sceptical and, I must say, atheistical 
conversation." Peacock, Headlong Hall, i. 
husk*t> " [Origin obscure.] A company of 
Silently: hares. 
A huske or a down of hares. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 80. 
huskanaw, huskanoy (hus'ka-na, -noi), . 
[Amer. Ind.] Formerly, among the Virginia 
Indians, the ceremony or ordeal of preparing 
young men for the higher duties of manhood, by 
solitary confinement and the use of narcotics, 
whereby remembrance of the past was supposed 
to be obliterated and the mind left free for the 
reception of new impressions. 
The Appomattoxes, formerly a great nation, though now 
an inconsiderable people, made a huskanaw in the year 
1690. Beverley, Virginia, iii. 1 32. 
huskanaw, huskanoy (hus'ka-na, -noi), r. t. 
[< huskanaw, huskanoy, n.] Among the Virginia 
Indians, to subject to the ordeal of the huska- 
naw. 
The choicest and briskest young men . . . are chosen 
out by the rulers to be huskanawed. 
Beverley, Virginia, ii. If 32. 
He is a good man too, but so much out of his element 
that he has the air of one huskanoyed. 
Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 342. 
huskedt (huskt), a. [< hunk 1 + -ed2.] 1. Hav- 
ing a husk ; covered as if with a husk. 
They haue a small fruit growing on little trees, husked 
like a Chestnut. Capt. John Smith, Works, 1. 122. 
Like Jupiter huskt in a female skin. 
Hist. Albino and Bellama(lGS6). 
busker (hus'ker), n. [< husk 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who husks; especially, one who husks corn; 
one who takes part in a husking-bee. [U. S.] 
The corn was piled in the centre of the capacious kitch- 
en ; around the heap squatted the huikers. 
S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 6. 
From many a brown old farm-house, and hamlet without 
name. 
Their milking and their home tasks done, the merry husk- 
ers came. Whittier, The Huskers. 
2. A tool or machine for removing the husks 
from maize. 3. Among oystermen, an oyster- 
opener; a shucker. 4. pi. In ornith., the De- 
i/liihitores, the third order of birds in Macgilli- 
vray's system. See Deglubitores. 
They are generally gregarious after the breeding season, 
and feed for the most part on seeds, which they deprive, 
by means of the sharp edges of the bill, of their outer cov- 
ering or pericarp, whence the name Huskers, given to the 
order. MacgiUivray, Hist. British Birds, I. 315. 
husk-hackler (husk'hak'ler), n. A machine 
for shredding corn-husks for stuffing mattresses 
and cushions. It is essentially a brake, like a hemp- 
brake, with toothed rolls, between which the busks are 
passed to split and comb the dried leaves. 
huskily (hus'ki-li), adv. [< hiisky^ + -ty 2 .] In 
a husky manner ; dryly ; hoarsely. 
hussif 
"It is true," Markheim said huskily, "I have In some 
degree complied with evil." A. L. Stevenson, Markheim. 
huskiness (hus'ki-nes), H. [< husky 2 + -ness.] 
The state of being husky ; dryness ; roughness; 
hoarseness, as of the voice when affected by 
fatigue or emotion. 
"I tell no lies," said the butcher, with the same mild 
huskiness as before. George Eliot, Silas M ai HIT, vi. 
husking (hus'king), n. [Verbal n. of husk 1 , v.~\ 
1. The act of stripping off husks, as of maize. 
2. A gathering of persons to assist in husk- 
ing Indian com (maize), usually with feasting 
and merrymaking. Also called huskitig-bee. 
[U. S.] 
For now the cowhouse filled, the harvest home, 
The invited neighbors to the husking come. 
J. Barlow, Hasty Pudding, lit 
In modern times, the jolly little God [Cupid] ... has 
become modernized in his arts, and invented husking*, 
apple-bees, sleigh-rides, "droppin's," gymnastics, etc. 
Hallberger's Illut. Mag., 1876, p. 686. 
husking-bee (hus'king-be), . Same as husk- 
,</, 2. [U.S.] 
The shining floor suggests the flail-beat of autumn, that 
pleasantest of monotonous sounds, and the later hvsking- 
bee, where the lads and lasses sit round laughingly busy 
under the swinging lantern. 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 270. 
husking-peg (hus'king-peg), H. Same as husk- 
ing-jiin. 
husking-pin (hus'king-pin), n. A pin or claw 
worn upon the hand to assist in tearing open 
the shuck when husking Indian corn. 
husky 1 (hus'ki), . [< husk 1 + -y 1 ."] Abound- 
ing with, consisting of. or resembling husks; 
hence, poor, unprofitable, etc. 
Most have found 
A husky harvest from the grudging ground. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 314. 
husky 2 (hus'ki), a. [A var. (after husk*) of E. 
dial, hasky, dry, rough, unpleasant, hask, dry, 
rough, harsh, parched: see hask 1 , harsk, harsh. 
According to Skeat, husky stands for "husty or 
"hausty, < haust 1 , hoast, host*, a dry cough.] 
Dry in the throat; hoarse; harsh; sounding 
roughly : said of the voice or utterance. 
The priest was a dry old man, with a husky and broken 
voice, and he proceeded as if all feeling had left his soul 
long ago. C. E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 45. 
But the voices sank yet lower, sank to husky tones of fear. 
Whittier, Garrison of Cape Ann. 
husky 3 (hus'ki), n.; pi. huskies (-kiz). [Said to 
be a corruption of Eskimo.'] A kind of dog used 
in drawing sleds in the Hudson's Bay territory. 
The original Husky has always been an animal requir- 
ing firm treatment, naturally dangerous, and to a great 
extent devoid of affection. 
Colonial and Indian Exhibitions (1886), p. 75. 
huso (hu'so), n. [NL., < OHG. Mso, MHG. 
huse, husen, G. hausen = D. huizen, MD. huyzen, 
the huso: see isinglass, which is a corruption of 
MD. huyzen-blas, 'huso-bladder.'] 1. The great 
sturgeon, Acipenser huso, of the rivers falling 
into the Black and Caspian seas, abounding 
especially in Russia. See sturgeon. 2. [cop.] 
A genus of such fishes. 
husst (bus), v. i. [A var. of hiss; cf. huzz.~] To 
hiss; whistle, as the wind. 
When once we come within a Mile, more or less, of the 
Cape and stand off to Sea, as soon as we get without it we 
flnd such a hussing Breez that sometimes we are not able 
to ply against it. Dumpier, Voyages, II. Iii. 38. 
hussar (hu-zar'), . [< F. hussard = Sp. husar, 
husaro = Pg. hussar = It. ussaro = D. huzaar 
= Dan. Sw. husar = G. husar, < Hung, huszdr, 
thetwentieth,< husz, twenty: so called because 
Matthias Corvinus (1443-90), King of Hungary 
and Bohemia, raised a corps of horse-soldiers 
by commanding that one man should be chosen 
out of every twenty in each village.] A mem- 
ber of a class of light cavalry originating in 
Hungary in the middle ages, and now form- 
ing part of most European armies. The Hun- 
garian hussars were famed for their activity and courage. 
Their dress was semi-oriental, and has set the type of 
uniform for the hussars of other nations. The latter are 
conspicuous for their fantastic dress, of which important 
parts have been the dolman and busby. Of late, years 
the dolman has been abandoned, and the hussar uniform 
is distinguished by brilliant colors, elaborate braidings, 
etc. 
I was about as perfect a type of the hussar as need be. 
My jacket seemed to fit tighter my pelisse hung more 
jauntily my shako sat more saucily on one side of my 
head. Lever, Maurice Tiernay, viii. 
hussif 1 (huz'if), n. [Assimilated form of hus- 
wife 1 (ME. huswife) = housewife 1 : see house- 
wife 1 and hussy 1 .] A housewife. 
hussif 2 (huz'if), w. [Also written huzzif; an 
alteration, simulating hussif 1 for housticifi' 1 , ot 
