Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc..

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Drupelet :: Drupelet (n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry..
Granulation :: Granulation (n.) The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar..
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..
Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..
Golden :: Golden (a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain..
Pitchfork :: Pitchfork (n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like..
Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..
Grain :: Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core..
Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..
Grit :: Grit (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat..
Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp..
Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
Grain :: Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork..
Graining :: Graining (n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt..
Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain..
Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder..
Engrain :: Engrain (v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.
Tous-les-mois :: Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year..
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