ricing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rice

noun

1. (uncountable)(Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.

   “Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.”

   “Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.”

2. (uncountable)The 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[…]”