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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.]

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.

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.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

cens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate. old politicians chew wisdom past. Pope.

The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing. [Obs.] The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton.

A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.

A mill for grinding tin ore.

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.