Definition of grain

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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..

Lern More About Grain

Engrained :: Engrained (imp. & p. p.) of Engrai.
Flour :: Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard..
Mite :: Mite (n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
Shittah Tree :: Shittah tree (n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color..
Feed :: Feed (n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep..
Tare :: Tare (n.) A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel..
Kidderminster :: Kidderminster (n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured..
Breadcorn :: Breadcorn () Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc..
Cornflower :: Cornflower (n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields..
Felting :: Felting (n.) The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.
Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting..
Mill :: Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill..
Drupelet :: Drupelet (n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry..
Golden :: Golden (a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain..
Migraine :: Migraine (n.) Same as Megrim.
Crop :: Crop (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest..
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering..
Hail :: Hail (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones..
Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..
Graining :: Graining (n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt..
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