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Formed like of corn.

Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.

Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

Granitic.

The act or the process of forming into granite. Humble.

Resembling granite in structure or shape.

Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

A grandam. [Colloq.]

A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. Granny's bend, or Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

nce of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition. Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chrcn. xxi. 22.

Capable of being granted.

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.

One who grants.

The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.

In a granular form.