Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff..

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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..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..
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..
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..
Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..
Corn :: Corn (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain..
Ingrain :: Ingrain (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance..
Harvest :: Harvest (n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Atheroid :: Atheroid (a.) Shaped like an ear of grain.
Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest..
Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.
Scruple :: Scruple (n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Grain :: Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.)..
Grosgrain :: Grosgrain (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
Multigranulate :: Multigranulate (a.) Having, or consisting of, many grains..
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..
Granulous :: Granulous (a.) Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
Bay :: Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks..
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