rice

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

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.

Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

A specific variety of this plant.

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

First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.

The seeds of this plant used as food.

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.

In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.

The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.

An instance of customization of a user interface.

This is my first rice!

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

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

Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.

To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)

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

When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.

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

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

The couple was well riced and sent on their way.

To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)

A twig or stick.

To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.

Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.

A bobbin or spool.

[…] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]

The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.