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Grain pulverized; meal; flour. [Obs.] The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue. Arbuthnot.

One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.

legant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright.

ent of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. Gray.

a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak. Shak.

Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.

that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grain and in the middle of the sloping surface, forming a kind of tongue, so that when put together, the tongue of each is inserted in the slit of the other. -- Grafting scissors, a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operat…

acuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade. -- Gram equivalent (Electrolysis), th…