grain
- Noun. (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- Noun. (countable) A single seed of grain.
- Noun. (context, countable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- Noun. (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- Noun. (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- Noun. (countable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams. A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the ''mesures usuelles'' permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
- Noun. (countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as ''carat '''grain''''', equal to (frac, 4) "carat" (karat).
- Noun. (''materials'') A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- Verb. To feed grain to.
- Verb. To make granular; to form into grains.
- Verb. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- Verb. (context, tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- Verb. (context, tanning) To soften leather.
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