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Grain :: Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively..

"""barleycorn " :: Barleycorn (n.) A grain or corn of barley..

Dolerite :: Dolerite (n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt..

Grains :: Grains (n.) Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1..

Graniferous :: Graniferous (a.) Bearing grain, or seeds like grain..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat..

Ingrain :: Ingrain (v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

Ingrain :: Ingrain (a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes..

Cornflower :: Cornflower (n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields..

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain..

Pungled :: Pungled (a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium)..

Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple..

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout..

Porphyry :: Porphyry (n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles..

Wing :: Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc..

Aphanitic :: Aphanitic (a.) Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Sperrylite :: Sperrylite (n.) An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature..

Dollar :: Dollar (n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains..

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