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losely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb.

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

rous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.…

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.