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See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

Small hard yellowish aggregations found in the Caucasus region, and containing various yeasts and bacteria. They are used as a ferment in preparing kefir.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

lants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle- green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

easurements; usually, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour. -- To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell.

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb.

leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn. [R.] "The corny ear." Prior.

A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side of the figure of an archer.

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.