Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rice
- uncountablesoap-making(Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.
Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.
2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN1 more example
Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.
2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14Synonyms: figging
- uncountableThe act of harvesting wild rice.
[…] harvest wild rice with their families in other areas of the Great Lakes region. In 1939, the year Minnesota harvesters were required to purchase ricing licenses, a number of women harvested rice at Portage Lake and Perch Lake in central[…]
2012 February 16, Brenda J. Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, Penguin, →ISBN - slanguncountablecomputingThe act of customizing the user interface of a computer system.
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.
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ricing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ricing
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