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Rice

noun

Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.

Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper.

English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944). Synonyms: Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice.

United States playwright (1892-1967). Synonyms: Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein, Elmer Rice.

verb

Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice.

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"Rice" Quotes from Famous Books

... Urann. William Dickman. Samuel Peck. Thomas Bolley. John Rice. Joseph Froude. Obadiah Curtis. George Ray. Benjamin Ingerson. Adam Collson. Daniel Hewes. Joseph Eayres. William Sutton. Ebenezer Ayres. William Elberson. Benjamin Stevens. James Brewer. Rufus Bant. William Clap. Nicholas ...

— Tea Leaves • Various

... a little while at noon and scanty rations were doled out. They had started in such haste that they had only a little rice and dried beef, and there was no time ...

— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler

... mark of every other decisive factor of human advance: its mastery is no mere addition to the resources of the race, but a multiplier of them. The case is not as when an explorer discovers a plant hitherto unknown, such as Indian corn, which takes its place beside rice and wheat as a new food, and so measures a service which ends there. Nor is it as when a prospector comes upon a new metal, such as nickel, with the sole effect of increasing the variety of materials from which a smith may fashion a hammer or a blade. Almost infinitely higher is the benefit wrought ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... round, whenever they entered, to see what was on the tea-table, and evidently surprised that nothing had yet been put down. Laura and Harry soon afterwards heard their visitors whispering to each other about Norwich buns, rice-cakes, sponge-biscuits, and macaroons; while Peter Grey was loud in praise of a party at George Lorraine's the night before, where an immense plum-cake had been sugared over like a snowstorm, and covered with crowds of beautiful amusing mottoes; not to mention a ...

— Junior Classics, V6 • Various

... to go to the rice-grounds,' observed Arthur. 'Bob, suppose we paddle over and try for ducks in the rice-beds, to ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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