Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side..

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Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Thirdings :: Thirdings (n. pl.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire..
Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..
Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn..
Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout..
Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..
Weeviled :: Weeviled (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain..
Graining :: Graining (n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath..
Hook :: Hook (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..
Granilla :: Granilla (n.) Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
Granulous :: Granulous (a.) Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
Grain :: Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains..
Straw :: Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..
Atheroid :: Atheroid (a.) Shaped like an ear of grain.
Shittah Tree :: Shittah tree (n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color..
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Platiniridium :: Platiniridium (n.) A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
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