grafter (grafter)

[ I am informed by trials of the most skilful grafters of these parts, that a man shall seldom fail of having cherries borne by his graft the same year. Evelyn. 2. A saw designed especially for sawing off limbs and stocks preparatory to grafting. It has a narrow pointed blade and fine teeth. diet; a vegetarian. vegetarian. [U. S.] grahamite (gra'am-it), n. [Named after J. = Lorimer Graham of New York, and Col. Gra ham of Baltimore.] A bituminous mineral resembling albertite, filling a fi ure in the carboniferous sandstone in West Virginia. graid, graidly. Same as graith, graithly. graillt (gral), n. [ = IMG:content-2565.png:[blocks in formation] grail2 (gral), n. [Early mod. E. grayle; grain of wheat. In a pound troy or apothecaries' weight there are 5,760 grains, the grain being the 24th part of a pennyweight in the former and the 20th part of a scruple grains, while in avoirdupois weight, in which the grain is not used, the ounce is equal to 4371 grains and the pound to 7,000 grains. Abbreviated gr . 4. Any small hard particle, as of sand, gunpow- der, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, a minute portion of anything; the smallest amount of anything: as, he has not a grain of wit. And for no carpyng I couth after ne knelyng to the grounde, I myzte gete no greyne of his grete wittis. Arth . Is there no remedy? Hub . None but to lose your eyes. Arth. O heaven! - that there were but a mote in yours, A grain , a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair. Shak., K. John, iv. 1. Love's too precious to be lost, 5. In bot . , a grain-like prominence or tuber- cle, as upon the sepals of dock.-6. pl . The husks or remains of malt after brewing, or of any grain after distillation. It is used as feed for domestic animals: in the United States, for cows, which eat it greedily, but whose milk is made thinner and le nutritious by it, though temporarily increased in quantity, while the animal is soon materially injured. 7. The quality of a substance due to the size, character, or arrangement of its grains or par- ticles, as its coarsene or finene , or superficial roughne or smoothne ; granular texture: as, a stone or salt of coarse grain ; marble or sugar of fine grain . The compa heaven, smooth without grain or fold, All set with spangs of glittring stars untold. The tooth of a sea-horse contains a curdled grain . Sir T. Browne. In any proce of photograph engraving in half tones it is absolutely nece ary to produce what is termed a grain , so as to obtain an ink-holding surface, and giving detail in the shadows. Sci . Amer . Supp . , p. 8972. 8. Fibrous texture or constitution, especially of wood; the substance of wood as modified by the quality, arrangement, or direction of its fibers: as, boxwood has a very compact grain ; Ritson's Songs (ed. Park), ii. 64. wood of a gnarled grain ; to plane wood with, Nor yet the delight, that comes to the sight, To see how it [ale] flowers and mantles in graile . 2. Fine gravel; sand. And lying downe upon the sandie graile Dronke of the streame as cleare as christ all glas. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 6. His bones as small as sandy grayle He broke, and did his bowels disentrayle. When any side of it was cut smooth and polite, it ap- peared to have a very lovely grain , like that of some cu- rio us close wood. Evelyn, Forest Trees, xxx. § 12. Then what were left of roughne in the grain Of British natures would disgust. Cowper , Task, v. 480. D. G. Ro etti, Jenny. The middle of the blade [of whalebone] is of a looser texture than the rest, and is called the grain , being com- posed of coarse, bristly hairs. Workshop Receipts , 1st ser., p. 362. Pre-occupied with what you rather must do Than what you should, made you against the grain To voice him consul. Shak ., Cor., ii. 3. Quoth Hudibras, "It is in vain (I see) to argue ' gainst the grain," In grain. [OF. en graine .] (at) With the scarlet dye ob- tained from insects of the genus Coccus . (6) With any fast dye; in fast colors: as, to dye in grain. How the red roses flush up in her cheekes, And the pure snow, with goodly vermill stayne Like crims in dyde in grayne. Our reason is first stained and spotted with the dye of our kindred and country, and our education puts it in grain. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), L. 683. (c) See def. 9. - To break the grain. See break . - To dye in grain. See in grain ( b ). grain1 (gran), v. [ It floureth, but it shal not greyne Unto the fruite of rightwisne e. That greynes white in hem [pomegranates] this crafte will die. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 116. The graine of it [Panicke] is almost as great as a beane. Coryat, Crudities, I. 103. 2. Collectively, corn in general; the gathered seeds of cereal plants in ma ; also, the plants themselves, whether standing or gathered: as, to grind or thresh grain ; a field or a stack of grain. And champing golden grain , the horses stood Hard by their chariots waiting for the dawn. My father, as I told you, was a philosopher in grain , speculative, systematical. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, i. 21. 10t. A spice: same as grains of paradise (which see, below). First he cheweth greyn and lycoris, To smellen swete. Ther was eke wexyng many a spice, As clowe-gelofre, and lycorice, Gyngevre, and greyn de paris [orig. F., graine de paradis ), Rom . of the Rose , 1. 1369. 11. (a) One of the grain-like insects of the genus Coccus , as C. polonicus or C. ilicis , which yield a scarlet dye; later, especially, cochineal; the product of the Coccus cacti ; kermes: so called from the granular appearance of the dried insects. See cut under cochineal . Hence -( b ) A red-colored dye; a red color of any kind pervading the texture: sometimes used as equivalent to Tyrian purple . (c) Any fast color. See in grain , below. Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain , will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. Milton, Comus, 1. 750. Over his lucid arms A military vest of purple flow'd, Livelier than Melibœan, or the grain Of Sarra. Milton , P. L., xi. 242. 12. The side of leather from which the hair has been removed, showing the fibrous texture. The part from which the "split" is taken, called the grain , is shaved on a beam with a currier's knife. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 514. 13. In mining , cleat or cleavage.-14. pl . A solution of birds' dung used in leather-manu- The Giant twixt the grayns . Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 495, 4. A piece of sheet-metal used in a mold to hold in position an additional part, as a core. Also called chapelet and gagger.-5. pl . An iron instrument with four or more barbed points, and a line attached to it, used at sea for striking and taking fish. In the United States these fish-spears are made in many pat- terns, with different numbers of prongs or barbs, sometimes only one prong and a half- barb. They oftenest have two prongs, each half-barbed inwardly. They are used for tur- tles as well as fish. Among seamen the plural is commonly used as a singular. Another amusement we sometimes indulg- ed in was "burning the water" for craw-fish. For this purpose we procured a pair of grains , with a long staff like a harpoon, mak- ing torches with tarred rope twisted round a long pine stick. IMG:content-2566.png:[blocks in formation]