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ality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser.

Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." Chaucer. Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. Milton. Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. Sir W. Scott.

That part of a flail which strikes the grain. Knight.

A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

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.

An ear of corn or grain.

lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

Ergotized rye or other grain. [R.]

Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]

. Raleigh. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. Dryden.

To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.