Word Meanings - GROATS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embden groats, crushed oats.

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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• 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,
• HULLED
  Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• MILLEPORITE
  A fossil millepore.
• HULLER
  One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• MILLENNIAL
  Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
• MILLED
  Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.
• MILLIFOLD
  Thousandfold. Davies .
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• MILLIWEBER
  The thousandth part of one weber.
• MILLESIMAL
  Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• CHONDRIN
  A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
• MIDRIB
  A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• BARKER'S MILL
  A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
• HYPOCHONDRIACISM
  Hypochondriasis.
• GRISTMILL
  A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• MAUNDRIL
  A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
• QUADRIBLE
  Quadrable.
• CHONDRIFICATION
  Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
• ADRIATIC
  Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
• QUADRICEPS
  The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.