cover

(cf. Se. hill = hull), ult. from the root of for AS. helen, ME. helen, cover, hide: see heal2, hill2, or and ef. hull2.) An outer covering, particularly other many?” of a nut or of grain; a husk. taking The hulkes, hudles, or skinnes of grapes, when their discrepancy. moisture is crushed and pre ed out. No mene lat or. hulling-machine I learnt more from her in a flash chine Than if my brainpan were an empty hull, hulling-machines And every Muse tumbled a science in. and Tennyson, Prince , ii. the To unhusk truth a-hiding in its huils. barley Browning, Ring and Book, I, 988. by and = ‘far Husk, etc. See skin, n. gin.