In grasses (including cereals such as rice, barley, oats and wheat), the ripe seed is surrounded by thin, dry, scaly bracts (called glumes, lemmas and paleas), forming a dry husk (or hull) around the grain.he process of loosening the chaff from the grain so as to remove it is called threshing â traditionally done by milling or pounding. Separating remaining loose chaff from the grain is called winnowing â traditionally done by repeatedly tossing the grain up into a light wind which gradually blows the lighter chaff away.
Mannerism refers to the art of the Late Italian Renaissance when artists used clashing colors and many bizarre themes in their work. Mannerism refers to the art of the Late Italian Renaissance when artists used clashing colors and many bizarre themes in their work.
Pragmatism was a philosophical tradition that originated in the United States around 1870. The most important of the âclassical pragmatistsâ were Charles Sanders Peirce (1839â1914), William James (1842â1910) and John Dewey (1859â1952).. âPragmatismâ and pragmatism. When William James published a series of lectures on âPragmatism: A New Name for an Old way of Thinkingâ in 1907, he began by identifying âThe Present Dilemma in Philosophyâ (1907: 9ff), a fundamental and apparently irresoluble clash between two ways of thinking about things.