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Grit :: Grit (n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit..

Angoumois Moth :: Angoumois moth () A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell..

Grains :: Grains (n. pl.) See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b)..

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

Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..

Granary :: Granary (n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain..

Moth :: Moth (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc..

Migraine :: Migraine (n.) Same as Megrim.

Spur :: Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.

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..

Jag :: "Jag (n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore..

Iridosmium :: Iridosmium (n.) The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

Crop :: Crop (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Rake :: Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake..

Emery :: Emery (n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum..

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..

Amomum :: Amomum (n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise..

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

Victualer :: Victualer (n.) One who deals in grain; a corn factor.

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