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Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne.

Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.

ly an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

ed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.

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

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

cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

inic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

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

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

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

Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

f several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

n Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are embedded. -- Ground parrakeet (Zoöl.), one of several Australian parrakeets, of the genera Callipsittacus and Geopsittacus, which live mainly up…