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

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..

Rick :: Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching..

Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack..

Mite :: Mite (n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..

Souple :: Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.

Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..

Elevation :: Elevation (n.) The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character..

Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..

Chinch :: Chinch (n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Pungled :: Pungled (a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium)..

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

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

Victual :: Victual (n.) Grain of any kind.

Bay :: Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks..

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