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- Grains - n. pl. - See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
- Grains - n. - Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
- Chaff - n. - The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
- Corny - a. - Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- Iridosmium - n. - The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens.
- 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.
- Felsite - n. - A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
- Alectryomancy - n. - Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten.
- Manna croup - - The husked grains of manna grass.
- Grainer - n. - An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
- Emery - n. - Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
- Intextine - n. - A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera.
- Filigree - n. - Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
- Acinaceous - a. - Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
- Tical - n. - A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
- Grain - n. - 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.
- Tank - n. - A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- Corn - n. - The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
- Wheatworm - n. - A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
- Grumose - a. - Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
- Amomum - n. - A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.
- Ergot - n. - The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
- Hail - n. - Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
- Sperrylite - n. - An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
- Granulate - v. t. - To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
- Spore - n. - One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
- Platiniridium - n. - A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
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