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To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

Having, or consisting of, many grains.

rine spring, a spring of salt water. -- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.

Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

The state of being granulated.

To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. Sterne.

To take the form of kernels; to granulate. [Obs.] It is observed that rain makes the salt kern. Dampier.

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. Meal beetle (Zoöl.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below. -- Meal moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larvæ of which feed upon meal, flour, etc. -- Meal worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor)…

f skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.

A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous p…

holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granulate it.

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also soojee.]