Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
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.
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 linear texture of a material or surface.
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.
Any small seed-like fruit.
A fragment of coral.
The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
A precursor.
An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
Semen.
The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
Race; generation; birth.
A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
To grow to maturity.
To produce seed.
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.