Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of grain is as below...

Breadstuff :: Breadstuff (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made..

Scythe :: Scythe (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use..

Drupelet :: Drupelet (n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen..

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

Ingrain :: Ingrain (v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat..

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core..

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..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill..

Corn :: Corn (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats..

Ripen :: Ripen (v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun..

Put :: Put (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to put (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date..

Shuck :: Shuck (n.) A shock of grain.

Dram :: Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains..

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

Miscellane :: Miscellane (n.) A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.

Alectryomancy :: Alectryomancy (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten..

Random Fonts

Most Popular