Word Meanings - GRANULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

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• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• PELLET
  1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax . 2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding , a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• PELLETED
  Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. "This pelleted storm." Shak.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• GRAIN
  See GROAN
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• ROUGH-GRAINED
  Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
• ENGRAIN
  1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott. 3. To