Word Meanings - DECORTICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• COATLESS
  Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• COATING
  1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. 2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
• DECORTICATION
  The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• COATI
  A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose. Note: The red coati , called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati is found in Surinam and Brazil.
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• CHONDRIN
  A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
• MIDRIB
  A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• HYPOCHONDRIACISM
  Hypochondriasis.
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• OVERCOAT
  A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
• MAUNDRIL
  A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
• QUADRIBLE
  Quadrable.
• TUXEDO COAT; TUXEDO
  A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.
• CHONDRIFICATION
  Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
• ADRIATIC
  Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
• QUADRICEPS
  The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.