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Grain   /greɪn/   Listen
Grain

noun
1.
A relatively small granular particle of a substance.  "A grain of sugar"
2.
Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses.  Synonyms: cereal, food grain.
3.
The side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
4.
A weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat.  Synonym: metric grain.
5.
1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams.
6.
1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams.
7.
Dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn.  Synonym: caryopsis.
8.
A cereal grass.
9.
The smallest possible unit of anything.  "He does not have a grain of sense"
10.
The direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric.
11.
The physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance).  Synonym: texture.  "Sand of a fine grain" , "Fish with a delicate flavor and texture" , "A stone of coarse grain"
verb
1.
Thoroughly work in.  Synonym: ingrain.
2.
Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood.
3.
Form into grains.  Synonym: granulate.
4.
Become granular.  Synonym: granulate.



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"Grain" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not make out what it was at first. A bend of the river swept it over to the side on which we were sailing, and Washburn headed out for the middle to avoid it. We soon ascertained that it was an old flatboat, such as come down the great river with a cargo of coal, lumber, grain, or other merchandise, and is then broken up, because it will not pay its cost to take it back to the point from ...
— Up the River - or, Yachting on the Mississippi • Oliver Optic
... returned me—so by miracle thou wilt return us to the bosom of our country. Meanwhile bear my grief-stricken soul to those wooded hills, to those green meadows stretched far and wide along the blue Niemen; to those fields painted with various grain, gilded with wheat, silvered with rye; where grows the amber mustard, the buckwheat white as snow, where the clover glows with a maiden's blush, where all is girdled as with a ribbon by a strip of green turf on which here and there ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz
... Hon. Thomas B. Reed. With portrait of the author. The latest acknowledged standard manual for everyone connected in any way with public life. Price, in cloth cover, 75 cents; full seal grain ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the little parties of cavalry were well received by the populace; the majority of Valencians were in favor of King Charles, and that night, when they halted, the weary horses obtained ample supplies of grain and forage, and the troopers were made welcome to the best ...
— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty
... girls were sowing the last of the grain when Fred Dwyer appeared on the scene. Dad stopped and talked with him while we (Dan, Dave and myself) sat on our hoe-handles, like kangaroos on their tails, and killed flies. Terrible were the flies, particularly when you had ...
— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd


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