grain dryer (grandrier)

An apparatus for drying grain when from any cause it has become damp, and to prepare it for shipment. Many different forms of dryers are employed, as conveyors, traveling belts, revolving pans, stirring appliances, and tubes filled with deflectors. In all it is the aim to keep the grain in constant motion, and to expose it in thin films or streams to currents of heated air. Similar ma chines to malt. graine grande seed, grain: see grain1.] The eggs of the silkworm. The eggs of the silkworm, called graine , are hatched out by artificial heat at the period when the mulberry leaves are ready for the feeding of the larvæ. Encyc. Brit ., XXII. 58. 2593 (b) In painting, the act or proce of producing an imitation of the color and arrangement of the grain or fibers of wood; the appearance so produced. (c) The act of grinding lithographic stones together with fine sand to give a certain mat or grain to the surface. (d) In leather making, the artificial markings on the surface of a skin to imitate morocco and other varieties of leather. (e) In bookbinding, the making of a rough or fine pebbled surface, or a wrinkled or striated surface, on leather used for binding applied to books. the surface (f) In of watch - making, movements, a etc. similar - Graining proce colors. See color. graining2 (gra'ning), n. [