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f pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

e spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

To remove the kernel form.

Removal of the kernel.

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

e C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.

within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

or plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.

. A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond oil. De Colange.

Having but a single stone or kernel.

A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.

Formed like a nucleus or kernel.

A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively. It must contain within itself a nucleus of truth. I. Taylor.