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Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. -- Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder…

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

Protuberance. [Obs.] Farindon.

rting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

er impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a lo…

To grind or strike the teeth together. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.

The brindled gnu. See Gnu.

nch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. -- Crown, or Rind, grafting, a method of grafting which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the scion cut slantwise. -- Saddle grafting, a mode of grafting in which a deep cleft is made in…

To bribe; to corrupt with presents. The greased advocate that grinds the poor. Dryden.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, Etym: contr. from grindeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grinding. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

obs. imp. of Grind. Chaucer.

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

imp. & p. p. of Grind. Ground cock, a cock, the plug of which is ground into its seat, as distinguished from a compression cock. Knight. -- Ground glass, glass the transparency of which has been destroyed by having its surface roughened by grinding. -- Ground joint, a close joint made by grinding together two pieces,…

p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp. African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum)…

A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

under Mass. -- High milling, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian. -- High place (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. -- High priest. See in…