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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.
- Amomum - n. - A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.
- Dollar - n. - A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
- 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.
- 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.
- Grumose - a. - Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
- Tank - n. - A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- Decigramme - n. - A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
- 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.
- Bunt - n. - A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
- 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.
- Darnel - n. - Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
- Farina - n. - A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- Acinus - n. - One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- Drupelet - n. - A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tical - n. - A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
- Intine - n. - A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.
- Chaff - n. - The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
- Extine - n. - The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.
- Spore - n. - One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
- Manna croup - - The husked grains of manna grass.
- 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.
- Granilla - n. - Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
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