Rice

rīs, n. one of the most useful and extensively cultivated of grains, like oats when ripe.— ns. Rice′-bird , the reed-bird: the paddy bird or Java sparrow; Rice′-bis′cuit , a sweet biscuit made of flour mixed with rice; Rice′-dust , Rice′-meal , the refuse of rice, a valuable food for cattle; Rice′-field-mouse , the rice-rat; Rice′-flour , a ground rice for puddings, for a face-powder, .; Rice′-glue , a cement made by boiling rice-flour in soft water; Rice′-hen , the common American gallinule; Rice′-milk , milk boiled and thickened with rice; Rice′-pā′per , a white smooth paper, made by the Chinese from the pith of Fatsia (Aralia) papyri fer a , a tree peculiar to Formosa; Rice′-plant′er , an implement for sowing rice; Rice′-pound′er , a rice-mill; Rice′-pudd′ing , a pudding made of rice and milk, sweetened, often with eggs, raisins, .; Rice′-soup , a soup of rice with flour, .; Rice′-stitch , an embroidery-stitch resembling rice in grain; Rice′-wa′ter , water in which rice has been boiled—a nourishing drink for invalids; Rice′-wee′vil , a weevil that destroys stored rice, . [O. Fr. ris —L. oryza —Gr. oryza , from Old Pers., whence also Ar. uruzz , ruzz .]