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ame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

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

One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

See Hollo.

Having or containing hulls.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

n them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.

Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.

ry pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

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

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

rced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau.…

A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.