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ything what it is; real or existing essence. These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident! Chaucer. Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose. Dryden.

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]

A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

tay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.

iven to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Erskine.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge wher…

To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.

The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. Paley.

A rubbing or grinding; trituration. [Obs.] Cheyne.

The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.

[R.] Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.

A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.

res. Milton. Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. -- Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.