Definition of grain

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Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.)..

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Thatch :: Thatch (n.) To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain..
Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
Frumentation :: Frumentation (n.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy..
Spore :: Spore (n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..
Weeviled :: Weeviled (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..
Harp :: Harp (n.) A grain sieve.
Farina :: Farina (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery..
Grain :: Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
Whiskey :: Whiskey (n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley..
Spelt :: Spelt (n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
Grain :: Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc..
Mite :: Mite (n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
Grain :: Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.
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..
Graining :: Graining (n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt..
Wheat :: Wheat (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race..
Pebble :: Pebble (v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
Thysanoptera :: Thysanoptera (n. pl.) A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips..
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