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n.
A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
n.
An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
n.
A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
superl.
Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
n.
A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
v. t.
To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
n. pl.
A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.
v. t.
To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
n.
A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.
v. t.
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
v. t.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
v. i.
To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
n.
The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
a.
Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.
n.
A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
n.
Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
v. t.
To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
n.
A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
n.
The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
n.
The wheatear.
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