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Word Meanings - GRANULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

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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,
  • 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

 

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