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A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy. Wiseman.

A sword; -- used poetically and loosely. The glaive which he did wield. Spenser.

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

n the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.

The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.

Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.

tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

A field where grain is grown.

A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

Resembling grains; granular.

A dungfork. [Scot.] Burns.

See Greith. Chaucer.

Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum.