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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..

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

Red-gum :: Red-gum (n.) A name of rust on grain. See Rust.

Drachma :: Drachma (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram..

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

Extine :: Extine (n.) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

Grainer :: Grainer (n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.

Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..

Milligramme :: Milligramme (n.) A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois..

Mocha :: Mocha (n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain..

Scarcity :: Scarcity (n.) The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties..

Engrained :: Engrained (imp. & p. p.) of Engrai.

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..

Stacte :: Stackyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.

Corncrake :: Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.

Grain :: Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram..

Ingrain :: Ingrain (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture..

Breadcorn :: Breadcorn () Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top..

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