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into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2.

Ground. Sir W. Scott.

The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.

One who, or that which, grinds.

Leather workers' materials. [Eng.] Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale. [Eng.]

from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe.

In a grinding manner. [Colloq.]

The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle. [Local, U. S.]

A grindstone. [Obs.]

A small drain.

A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to th…

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. I fancy there was a background of grinding and waiting before Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

To grind or form the edge of to an angle. Moxon.

, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

ed also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

moving body; an aëriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.