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To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.

To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.

Dull of apprehension.

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.

Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

ye, 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.

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

See Harebrained.

Half-bred; imperfect. [R.] "A half-strained villain." Dryden.

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.