grain
Definition of grain:
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
Any small hard mass; a single seed; corn in general; any minute particle; the smallest weight, so named because supposed of equal weight with a grain of corn; the unit of the English system of weights.
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part of speech: noun
Direction of the fibres of wood; the wood as modified by the fibres; the form or direction of the constituent particles of a body; the temper or disposition: grains, an instr. with barbed prongs, used at sea for spearing fish: against the grain, against the direction of the fibres: to go against the grain, to be repugnant to; to cause trouble or mortification to: to dye in grain, to dye in the raw material; to dye firmly: the grain- side of leather, that side of the tanned or dressed hide on which the hair grew. Note.- The three preceding entries are necessarily connected, but it was judged more convenient to make each one begin a separate paragraph, chiefly with the view of exhibiting the derivations with greater distinctness.
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part of speech: noun
A single small hard seed: ( collectively) the seeds of certain plants which form the chief food of man: a minute particle: a very small quantity: the smallest British weight: the arrangement of the particles of fibres of anything, as stone or wood: texture: the dye made from cochineal insects, which, in the prepared state, resembles grains of seed: hence to DYE IN GRAIN is to dye deeply, also, to dye in the wool.
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Common misspellings:
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- gran (47.4%)
- garin (10.5%)
- grian (26.3%)
- graine (5.3%)
- greain (10.5%)
Usage examples for grain:
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That was the question he had to solve in his mind; but no matter how he turned the subject over, he could extract not the smallest grain of comfort.
"Middy and Ensign" – G. Manville Fenn -
All the grain had been buried, and the cattle removed to distant parts of the country.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People" – Henry Blanc -
It went against the grain so what is the use of talking about it?
"The Yellow God An Idol of Africa" – H. Rider Haggard -
" Nothing has happened," he answers, trying to smile, but I see that it is quite against the grain only that I have had some not very pleasant news."
"Nancy A Novel" – Rhoda Broughton
