6. 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.
Hard box, and linden of a softer grain.
Dryden. 7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from
his course of growth.
Shak. 8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. Knight.
10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a.,
4.
12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.]
Brothers . . . not united in grain.
Hayward. 13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.]
He cheweth grain and licorice,
To smellen sweet.
Chaucer. Against the grain, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with
difficulty. Swift. Saintsbury.— A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance.
— Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. — Grain colors,
dyes made from the coccus or kermes insect. — Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat,
seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. — Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of
several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cerealella), whose larvæ devour
grain in storehouses. — Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been
removed; — opposed to flesh side. — Grains of paradise, the seeds of a species of amomum. —
grain tin, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. — Grain weevil (Zoöl.), a small red
weevil which destroys stored wheat and other grain, by eating out the interior. — Grain worm (Zoöl.),
the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth, above. — In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine.
"Anguish in grain." Herbert. — To dye in grain, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes
grain [see Grain, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under
Dye.
The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . .
Likce crimson dyed in grain.
Spenser. —
To go against the grain of to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.
Grain
(Grain), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grained (grand); p. pr. & vb. n. Graining.]
1. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
2. To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
3. To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of
Grain
(Grain), v. i. [F. grainer, grener. See Grain, n.]
1. To yield fruit. [Obs.] Gower.
