Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food..

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Ear :: Ear (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well..
Graniferous :: Graniferous (a.) Bearing grain, or seeds like grain..
Engrain :: Engrain (v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Marbleize :: Marbleize (v. t.) To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron..
Shack :: Shack (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground..
Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..
Rick :: Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching..
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..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Spur :: Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.
Basalt :: Basalt (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated..
Grainfield :: Grainfield (n.) A field where grain is grown.
Lilly-pilly :: Lilly-pilly (n.) An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained..
Grain :: Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise..
Vermicelli :: Vermicelli (n.) The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni..
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)..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..
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