GRAINED
Verb
grained
simple past tense and past participle of grain
Adjective
grained (comparative more grained, superlative most grained)
Having a grain or grains
Stained with an imitation wood grain
(in combination) Having a specified type of grain e.g. close-grained
Hyponyms
• coarse-grained
• close-grained
• fine-grained
Anagrams
• Dearing, Reading, dearing, deraign, gradine, inraged, reading
Source: Wiktionary
Grained, a.
1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing
the grain; hence, rough.
2. Dyed in grain; ingrained.
Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but
pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne.
3. Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or
sepals of some flowers.
GRAIN
Grain, v. & n.
Definition: See Groan. [Obs.]
Grain, n. Etym: [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel,
small particle. See Corn, and cf. Garner, n., Garnet, Gram the chick-
pea, Granule, Kernel.]
1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants,
like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man,
as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used
collectively.
Storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.
3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence,
any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen,
of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. Milton.
4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because
considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of
the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and
5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See
Gram.
5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red
color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used
by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
All in a robe of darkest grain. Milton.
Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors
of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection.
6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the
particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or
hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. Dryden.
7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood,
or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and
divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.
8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous
material.
9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
Knight.
10. pl.
Definition: The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation;
hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
11. (Bot.)
Definition: A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common
dock. See Grained, a., 4.
12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.]
Brothers . . . not united in grain. Hayward.
13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.]
He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. Chaucer.
Against the grain, against or across the direction of the fibers;
hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly;
reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of
allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance.
– Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain
into sheaves.
– Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect.
– Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other
skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc.
– Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family
Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ
devour grain in storehouses.
– Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the
hair has been removed; -- opposed to flesh side.
– Grains of paradise, the seeds of a species of amomum.
– grain tin, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with
charcoal.
– Grain weevil (Zoöl.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius),
which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the
interior.
– Grain worm (Zoöl.), the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth,
above.
– In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine.
"Anguish in grain." Herbert.-- To dye in grain, to dye of a fast
color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n., 5];
hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw
material. See under Dye.
The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in
grain. Spenser.
– To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex,
irritate, mortify, or trouble.
Grain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grained; p. pr. & vb. n. Graining.]
1. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
2. To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
3. To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of
(leather, etc.).
Grain, v. i. Etym: [F. grainer, grener. See Grain, n.]
1. To yield fruit. [Obs.] Gower.
2. To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of
crystallization; to granulate.
Grain, n. Etym: [See Groin a part of the body.]
1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. [Obs.] G. Douglas.
2. A tine, prong, or fork. Specifically:
(a) One the branches of a valley or of a river. (b) pl.
Definition: An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed
points.
3. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
4. (Founding)
Definition: A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition