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A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain. Then to sun thyself in open air. Dryden.

in a position different from that which it had in the quarry. It . . . has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded. Gilbert White.

Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.

A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer.

The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel. [Written also swipel, and swipple.]

The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.

A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field From whence then hath it tares Matt. xiii. 27. The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole o…

tter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

earthly charge. Milton. There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson.

, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.