Index of English words, starting with "gr"

(1) - Grafting (n.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
(2) - Grafting (n.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
(3) - Grafting (n.) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
(4) - Grafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Graft

(1) - Grail (n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.
(2) - Grail (n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.
(3) - Grail (n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.
(4) - Grail (n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

(1) - Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
(2) - Grain (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
(3) - Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
(4) - Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
(5) - Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
(6) - Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
(7) - Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
(8) - Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
(9) - Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
(10) - Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(11) - Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
(12) - Grain (v. & n.) See Groan.
(13) - Grain (a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
(14) - Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
(15) - Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
(16) - Grain (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
(17) - Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).
(18) - Grain (n.) To yield fruit.
(19) - Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
(20) - Grain (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
(21) - Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork.
(22) - Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.
(23) - Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
(24) - Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
(25) - Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

(1) - Grained (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
(2) - Grained (a.) Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
(3) - Grained (a.) Dyed in grain; ingrained.
(4) - Grained (a.) Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.
(5) - Grained (imp. & p. p.) of Grain

(1) - Grainer (n.) One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
(2) - Grainer (n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.
(3) - Grainer (n.) An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.