See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

GRAIN (derived through the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French from See also:

• LAT

Lat. granum, See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, from an See also:

• ARYAN

Aryan See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root meaning " to See also:

• WEAR

wear down," which also appears in the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic word " See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn ")  , a word particularly applied to the See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, in botanical See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language the " See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit," of cereals, and hence applied, as a collective See also:

• TERM

term to cereal See also:

• PLANTS

plants generally, to which, in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, the term " See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn " is also applied (see See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

GRAIN See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

TRADE) . Apart from this, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief meaning, the word is used of the See also:

• MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt refuse of See also:

• BREWING

brewing and distilling, and of many hard rounded small particles, resembling the seeds of plants, such as " grains " of See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand, See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

salt, See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold, See also:

• GUNPOWDER

gunpowder, &c . " Grain " is also the name of the smallest unit of See also:

• WEIGHT

weight, both in the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom and the United States of See also:

• AMERICA

America . Its origin is supposed to be the weight of a grain of See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat, dried and gathered from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear . The See also:

• TROY
• TROY, JEAN FRANCOIS DE (1679–1752)

troy grain= 1/576o of a lb, the See also:

• AVOIRDUPOIS

avoirdupois grain= I/70oo of a lb . In See also:

• DIAMOND

diamond weighing the grain = s of the See also:

• CARAT (Arab. Oral, weight of four grains; Gr. Kep6Tro11, little horn, the fruit of the carob or locust tree)

carat, = •7925 of the troy grain . The word " grains " was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early used, as also in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, of the small seed-like See also:

• INSECTS

insects supposed formerly to be the berries of trees, from which a See also:

• SCARLET

scarlet dye was extracted (see See also:

• COCHINEAL

COCHINEAL and KERHES) . From the Fr. en graine, literally in dye, comes the French verb engrainer, Eng . " engrain " or " ingrain," meaning to dye in any fast See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour . From the further use of " grain " for the texture of substances, such as See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood, See also:

• MEAT

meat, &c., " engrained " or " ingrained " means- ineradicable, impregnated, dyed through and through . The " grain " of See also:

• LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
• LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather is the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of a skin showing the fibre after the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair has been removed . The imitating in paint of the grain of different kinds of See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods is known as " graining " (see PAINTER-See also:

• WORK

WORK) .

" Grain," or more commonly in the plural " grains," construed as a singular, is the name of an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument with two or more barbed prongs, used for spearing See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . This word is Scandinavian in origin, and is connected with See also:

• DAN

Dan. See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green, Swed. gren, See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch, and means the See also:

• FORK (Lat. furca)

fork of a See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, of the See also:

• BODY

body, or the prongs of a fork, &c . It is not connected with " See also:

• GROIN

groin," the inguinal parts of the body, which in its earliest forms appears as grynde .