Word Meanings - GRANULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little grain a small particle; a pellet.
Related words: (words related to GRANULE)
- 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, - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - PELLET
1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax . 2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding , a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks. - 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 - GRAINY
Resembling grains; granular. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - 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, - PELLETED
Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. "This pelleted storm." Shak. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - GRAINS
1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1. - GRAINFIELD
A field where grain is grown. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - GRAIN
See GROAN - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - 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. -- - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - 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. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - 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. - ROUGH-GRAINED
Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque. - ENGRAIN
1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott. 3. To