Definition of grain

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

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Grange :: Grange (n.) A building for storing grain; a granary.
Ingrained :: Ingrained (imp. & p. p.) of Ingrai.
Bunt :: Bunt (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand..
Granulation :: Granulation (n.) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing..
Pop :: Pop (v. t.) To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts..
Knurl :: Knurl (n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained..
Grainfield :: Grainfield (n.) A field where grain is grown.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..
Ugly :: Ugly (superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly..
Moth :: Moth (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc..
Graniferous :: Graniferous (a.) Bearing grain, or seeds like grain..
Acinaceous :: Acinaceous (a.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them..
Thirdings :: Thirdings (n. pl.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire..
Barn :: Barn (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables..
Dollar :: Dollar (n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined..
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..
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..
Albumen :: Albumen (n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc..
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..
Granulated :: Granulated (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar..
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