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Mow :: Mow (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

Hoard :: Hoard (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain..

Pennyweight :: Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name..

Reap :: Reap (v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Pebble :: Pebble (v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

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

Graining :: Graining (n.) A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised..

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty; as, sharp sand..

Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Pearl :: Pearl (v. t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley..

Millet :: Millet (n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica..

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

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..

Toll :: Toll (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Mangcorn :: Mangcorn (n.) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain..

Grain :: Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.

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..

Malt :: Malt (v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt..

Grainer :: Grainer (n.) An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

Winder :: Winder (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

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