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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..

Grime :: Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained..

Grit :: Grit (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats..

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

Rye :: Rye (n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man..

Centigramme :: Centigramme (n.) The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..

Capsheaf :: Capsheaf (n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

Measure :: Measure (v. i.) To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc..

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..

Souple :: Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.

Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting..

Raking :: Raking (n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake..

Cereal :: Cereal (a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain..

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

Fovilla :: Fovilla (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

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

Frumentation :: Frumentation (n.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy..

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