Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc..

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Swatte :: Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
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..
Mocha :: Mocha (n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain..
Daric :: Daric (n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer..
Ugly :: Ugly (superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly..
Souple :: Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.
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..
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..
Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited..
Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..
Knurl :: Knurl (n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained..
Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Swath :: Swath (v. t.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Kiln-dry :: Kiln-dry (v. t.) To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain..
Kidderminster :: Kidderminster (n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured..
Whiskey :: Whiskey (n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley..
Mow :: Mow (n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
Ingraining :: Ingraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingrai.
Irrorate :: Irrorate (a.) Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand..
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