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Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder..

Barleybreak :: Barleybreak (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal..

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing..

Ingrain :: Ingrain (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture..

Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue..

Jag :: "Jag (n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..

Daric :: Daric (n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer..

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away..

Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..

Barleycorn :: Barleycorn (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch..

Grit :: Grit (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats..

Karob :: Karob (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.

Hordeolum :: Hordeolum (n.) A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty..

Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain..

Garner :: Garner (n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

Hail :: Hail (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones..

Intextine :: Intextine (n.) A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera..

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