grain

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(senseid) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
A single seed of grass food crops.

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The crops from which grain is harvested.
A linear texture of a material or surface.
A single particle of a substance.
Any of various small of measure|units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
The English grain of (frac) pound or (frac) pound|pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of (frac) carat used for measuring stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
The French grain of (frac) livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the ''(w)''.
Any of various small of measure|units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
The carat grain of (frac) carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
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 purple.
(RQ:Milton Poems)
(ante) Quoted by Coleridge, preface to ''Aids to Reflection'':

(..) doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.

The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(quote-book)
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.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
(RQ:Hayward Edward 6) not united in grain
Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
A tine, prong, or fork.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on HM Bark Endeavour|H.M. Bark ''Endeavour''), ''journal'' (quoted by Parkin (page 195)

''Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains ''