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Graining   Listen
verb
Grain  v. t.  (past & past part. grained; pres. part. graining)  
1.
To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
2.
To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
3.
To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).



Grain  v. i.  
1.
To yield fruit. (Obs.)
2.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.



noun
Graining  n.  
1.
Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
2.
A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
3.
Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.
4.
(Soap Making) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.



Graining  n.  (Zool.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); called also dobule, and dace.






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"Graining" Quotes from Famous Books



... smoothly in a body or thick layer. The first may be regarded as a superior Vandyke brown, the second as a superior umber. The two extreme kinds should be distinguished as light and deep Cappah browns; the former excellent for dead colouring and grounds, the latter for glazing and graining. These pigments work well in oil and varnish; they do not, however, keep their place while drying in oil by fixing the oil, like the driers of lead, but run. Under the names of Euchrome and Mineral Brown, they have been introduced into commerce for ...
— Field's Chromatography - or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists • George Field

... attraction for him in the absence of his family, and the comfort of The Sun parlour was seductive. Aunt M'riar's visit was unexpected, as she had not written in advance. So when the painter-and-glazier began to prepare to leave his tins and pots and brushes and graining-tools behind him till he could make it convenient to call round and fetch them, Aunt M'riar felt threatened by loneliness. And when he finally took his leave, with an assurance that by to-morrow ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... well-known principle of the fine arts, in all their branches, that all shams and mere pretenses are to be rejected,—a truth which Ruskin has shown with the full lustre of his many-colored prose-poetry. As stucco pretending to be marble, and graining pretending to be wood, are in false taste in building, so false jewelry and cheap fineries of every kind are in bad taste; so also is powder instead of natural complexion, false hair instead of real, and flesh-painting of every description. I have even the hardihood to think and assert, ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... which cared nothing about craftsmanship or art, and everything for cheapness and profit. From this man and by laborious study and practice in his spare time, aided by a certain measure of natural ability, the boy acquired a knowledge of decorative painting and design, and graining and signwriting. ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... be regarded as a superior Vandyke brown, the second as a superior umber. The two extreme kinds should be distinguished as light and deep Cappah browns; the former excellent for dead colouring and grounds, the latter for glazing and graining. These pigments work well in oil and varnish; they do not, however, keep their place while drying in oil by fixing the oil, like the driers of lead, but run. Under the names of Euchrome and Mineral Brown, they have been introduced into commerce ...
— Field's Chromatography - or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists • George Field


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