graining1 (graning)

[Verbal n. of grain1, v.] The act or proce of producing a grain or a grained or fibrous appearance on the surface of a material; the appearance so produced. Specifically - (a) The milling of a coin. Mr. Lowndes tells us that the engines which put the letters upon the edges of the large silver pieces, and mark the edges of the rest with a graining , are wrought secretly. Locke, Further Considerations concerning Money. It is called by some the unmilled guinea, as having no graining upon the rim. Leake . a nearly solid condition, so scarcely receive an impre ion from the finger. grain-staff (gran's taf), n. 11. A quarter-staff with a pair of short tines at the end. Hall i well. -2. The bough of a tree. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] grain-tin (grān'tin), n. In mining, the purest and finest white tin, smelted with charcoal, which never had any brood or foreign admixture in the mine. Pryce, 1778. [Cornwall.] grain-tree (grān'trē), n. ly1 .] 11. Ready; willing; meek. Heo grauntede then to ben at his grace, And sone aftur that gretnede that greithli mayde. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 2. Orderly; proper; decent. [Prov. Eng., in the form graidly, gradely.] graithlyt (grath'li), adv. [Also E. dial. graid ly, gradely; This a grete of the Grekes graidly beheld, Had meruell full mekyll, macchet hym to Ector. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 8612. Whan this worme had went wislich aboute, Hee wolde haue gliden in againe graith lich & soone. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1012. A rhynchopho of the plant from which the grains called kermes were supposed to come: used as a bearing, as by the Dyers' Company of London. grain-weevil (grān'wē"vl), n. rous coleopteran or snout-beetle of the genus Calandra (or Sitophilus ) and family Cal and rid a, which injures stored cereals. See Calandra, 2, and weevil. IMG:content-2567.png:[blocks in formation]