LekhoriLekhoriCereal 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.
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.
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.
To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.
A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
A number of places in the United States:
From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdis...
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In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
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.