j. rice
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J. rice
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So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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rice (raɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an erect grass, Oryza sativa, that grows in East Asia on wet ground and has drooping flower spikes and yellow oblong edible grains that become white when polished |
| 2. | the grain of this plant |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) (tr) to sieve (potatoes or other vegetables) to a coarse mashed consistency, esp with a ricer |
| [C13 rys, via French, Italian, and Latin from Greek orūza, of Oriental origin] | |
| Rice (raɪs) | |
| —n | |
| Elmer, original name Elmer Reizenstein. 1892--1967, US dramatist. His plays include The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929), which was made into a musical by Kurt Weill in 1947 | |
| RICE (raɪs) | |
| —n acronym for | |
| rest, ice, compression, elevation: the recommended procedure for controlling inflammation in injured limbs or joints | |
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Word Origin & History
rice
1234, from O.Fr. ris, from It. riso, from L. oriza (cf. It. riso), from Gk. oryza "rice," via an Indo-Iranian language (cf. Pashto vrize, O.Pers. brizi), ult. from Skt. vrihi-s "rice." The Gk. word is the ult. source of all European words (cf. Welsh reis, Ger. reis, Lith. rysai, Serbo-Cr. riza, Pol.
ryz). Introduced 1647 in the Carolinas. Rice paper (1822) is made from a reed found in Taiwan.
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