grain

(gran) [L. gratmm.] i. Cereal plants, com wheat, rye, etc. 2. seed of one of the cereal plants. 3. minute, hard particle of any substance, as of sand. 4 unit of weight, ^^ dram, jjjj ounce, -;J^-^ pound; the equivalent of 0.066 gram, grains of Par'adise, Guin'ea grains, meleguete pepper, the seeds of melegueta, a plant of West Africa, having diuretic properties, g. foun'der, indigestion, gastric impaction, or gorged stomach, in the horse, caused usually by overeating; there are lo of appetite, a desire to eat dirt and filth, rough skin, po ibly a dry cough, and colicky pains an hour or so after eating, g. itch, an urticarioid eruption, sometimes noted in farmers and grain handlers due to the action of a mite, Pediculoides ventricosus or Dit rope not us aureoviridis.