grain : Idioms & Phrases

• a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance.

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• against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.

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• noun small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains
  Sitotroga cerealella; angoumois moth.
  

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• adjective satellite dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
  close-grained.
  
  • close-grained birch
  • fine-grained rock

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• adjective satellite composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
  gritty; grainy; granular; farinaceous; mealy; granulose.
  
  • granular sugar
  • the photographs were grainy and indistinct
  • it left a mealy residue
• adjective satellite not having a fine texture
  coarse-grained.
  
  • coarse-grained wood
  • large-grained sand

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Coarse"-grained` adjective

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

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• adjective satellite difficult to deal with
  contrarious.
  
• adjective satellite of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
  cross-grained; curly-grained.
  

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• adjective satellite of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
  cross-grained; curly-grained.
  

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• noun grain grown for cattle feed
  

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Felt grain

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1. , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.

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• adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
  powdery; pulverised; fine-grained; pulverized; powdered.
  
  • powdered cellulose
  • powdery snow
  • pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
• adjective satellite dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
  close-grained.
  
  • close-grained birch
  • fine-grained rock

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• noun foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  grain; cereal.
  

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• noun the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
  ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; ethanol.
  

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• an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves.

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• dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect.

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• noun a field where grain is grown
  grainfield.
  

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• . (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc.

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• noun a merchant who deals in food grains
  

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• noun moth whose larvae feed on grain
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storehouses.

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• (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; opposed to flesh side.

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• noun any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
  

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• crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal.

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• (Zoöl.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior.

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth, above.

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• noun West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds
  melagueta pepper; grains of paradise; Guinea pepper; Aframomum melegueta.
  

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• the seeds of a species of amomum.

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• noun West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds
  melagueta pepper; grains of paradise; Guinea pepper; Aframomum melegueta.
  

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• (Bot.), grains of Paradise, or amomum. See Amomum.

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• noun twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
  horse gram; Dolichos biflorus; poor man's pulse; Macrotyloma uniflorum.
  

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• of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. "Anguish in grain." Herbert.

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• adjective satellite not having a fine texture
  coarse-grained.
  
  • coarse-grained wood
  • large-grained sand

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• noun a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
  grain.
  

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• (Bot.), the sesame.

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• adjective satellite (of leather) having a rough surface as the result of being treated with a patterned roller
  

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• (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen.

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• noun herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers
  Fritillaria affinis; Fritillaria lanceolata; Fritillaria mutica; mission bells.
  

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Rough"-grained adjective

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

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• (Bot.), corn or grain for seed.

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• noun good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting
  seed corn.
  

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• (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc.

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• adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
  powdery; pulverised; fine-grained; pulverized; powdered.
  
  • powdered cellulose
  • powdery snow
  • pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding

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• adjective satellite of timber; having fibers that run in parallel
  

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• to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under Dye.

  The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain. Spenser.

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• (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly.

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• (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.

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• noun hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
  starch wheat; emmer; Triticum dicoccum.
  

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• adjective satellite of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
  cross-grained; curly-grained.
  

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• noun texture produced by the fibers in wood
  woodiness; woodgrain.
  

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