A linear texture of a material or surface.
The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
A single particle of a substance.
The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
A single seed of grass food crops.
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
The crops from which grain is harvested.
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.
To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
To feed grain to.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
To soften leather.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To yield fruit.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
General shape or form.
A fontanelle.
Earth, ground.
Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
Distinctive character or type.
The shape or pattern of a mold.
A group of moldings.
To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
To ornament with moldings.
To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
To cover with mold or soil.
To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
To fit closely by following the contours of.