Word Meanings - HUMMEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.

Related words: (words related to HUMMEL)

• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
• BARLEYCORN
  1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• BARLEY
  A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird , the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction
• BARLEYBRAKE; BARLEYBREAK
  An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• INSEPARATELY
  Inseparably. Cranmer.