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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Husk n.
 1. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
 2. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
 Husks of the prodigal son Bot., the pods of the carob tree. See Carob.