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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Decorticated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Decorticating

[L.

decorticatus

, p. p. of

decorticare

to bark;

de-

cortex

bark.]

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

“Great barley dried and decorticated.”

Arbuthnot.

Verb.

[L. bark.] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley.

pp.

Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.

DECOR'TICATING, ppr. Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling.

DECORTICA'TION, n. The act of stripping off bark or husk.

DECO'RUM, n. [L. to become.]