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Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.]

The act of deraigning. [Obs.]

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] "Distrained with chains." Chaucer.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

Same as Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.

ees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley.

Capable of being drained.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

The missel thrush.

One who, or that which, drains.

The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.

A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.

See 4th Trap, 5.

Stupid; doltish. Shak.