Grail

gral, n. (in medieval legend) the Holy Cup in winch Christ celebrated the Lord Supper. [Orig the San Great, Holy Dish not Sang Real, ‘Holy Blood'), in which said Joseph of A rima the a collected our Lord’s blood; from O. Fr. graal or great, a flat dish— Low L gradate prob. a corr. of cratelta, dim. of crater a bowl. Cf. Crater.] Grain, gran, a single small hard seed fcollecuvely) the seeds of certain plants which form the chief food of man a minute particle a very small quantity the smallest British weight the arrangement of the particles or fibres of anything, as stone or wood texture the dye made from cochineal insects, which, in the prepared state, resembles grains of seed hence to Dye in N Cite, far mS, h£r mine Gra —grain is to dye deeply, also, dye in the woo). v.t. to paint in imitation of wood [Fr.— L. grxmum, seed, which is akin to K Com.]