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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.

To take the form of kernels; to granulate. [Obs.] It is observed that rain makes the salt kern. Dampier.

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.

t, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.

The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

inted in the type called pearl. Ground pearl. (Zoöl.) See under Ground. -- Pearl barley, kernels of barley, ground so as to form small, round grains. -- Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters. -- Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to be…

A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceæ, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, an…

s in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the p…

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.