rice

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ɹaɪs/]

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1. rice (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

Example: Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.

2. rice (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A specific variety of this plant.

Example: The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.

3. rice (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The seeds of this plant used as food.

Example: Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.

4. rice (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).

Example: Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.

5. rice (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)

Example: In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.

6. rice (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).

Example: So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.

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