Word Meanings - GRAINS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

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• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• PIGEONHOLE
  A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• PIGEONFOOT
  The dove's-foot geranium .
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• PIGEONRY
  A place for pigeons; a dovecote.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• TANNIC
  Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound,
• GRAINER
  1. 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. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• PIGEONTOED
  Having the toes turned in.
• TANNER
  One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• TANNERY
  1. A place where the work of tanning is carried on. 2. The art or process of tanning. Carlyle.
• TANNIER
  See TANIER
• TANNAGE
  A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.
• TANNING
  The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• STANNOSO-
  A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
• STANNOUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride , a white crystalline substance, SnCl2. 2, obtained by dissolving tin
• BRITANNIA
  A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.
• GYROPIGEON; GYRO-PIGEON
  A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.