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A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

curl; to run in wavws; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning.

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

To remove the husk from. [Obs.] "Wheat dehusked upon the floor." Drant.

es to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.

The 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.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation. Wheaton.

deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.…

tivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.