Definition of grain

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Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate..

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Squally :: Squally (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
Engrain :: Engrain (v. t.) To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away..
Grosgrain :: Grosgrain (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
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..
Acinaceous :: Acinaceous (a.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts..
Drain :: Drain (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains..
Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..
"aleurone :: Aleurone (n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (protein granules) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm..
Millet :: Millet (n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica..
Drachma :: Drachma (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram..
Irrorate :: Irrorate (a.) Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand..
Wing :: Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc..
Acinus :: Acinus (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc..
Grained :: Grained (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks..
Graining :: Graining (n.) Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins..
Chondro- :: Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos..
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