grainedadj.1
/ɡreɪnd/ In senses of the verb.figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iv. 80 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soule, And there I see such blacke and grained [1604 greeued] spots, As will not leaue their Tinct.
1. Dyed in grain.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > fast dyed
in grainc1386
grained1455
engrained1598
fast1658
standing1716
ingrain1766
fixed1791
fast-dyed1815
colourfast1851
wash-fast1963
1455 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 43/2 All Erlis sall vse mantilles of brown granyt opyn befor.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3065 Beryn & these romeyns were com in good aray As myȝt be made of woll, and of colour greynyd.
1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 8 Wollen Cloth of the fynest making scarlet grayned.
1534 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 203 To my brother Wm. Trotte my grayned gowne.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. i. 1/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The costly skarlettes, pleaunt gloues, and many other grayned and delicate clothes.
2. Formed into grains.
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1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 43 For this purpose, put grained zinc into a matrass.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 673 Sugar in a pure crystallized or grained state.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Grained-powder, that corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed in certain preparations.
3. Of leather (see grain v.1 6).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [adjective] > having specific grain > having had grain removed
grained1714
degrain1925
degrained1928
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 81 Skins..Grain'd per Piece 00 08.
1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 32 Captain Lewis gave them a grained deer skin to stretch over a half keg for a drum.
1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 11 Imitation Russia grained leather.
4. Painted to imitate the ‘grain’ of wood or the markings of marble.
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1798 Taylor Builder's Price Bk. in Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. Mahogany grained.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 188/1 Grained, colored in imitation of the grain of woods, marbles, etc., as in the ornamentation of marbled paper.
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grainedadj.2
/ɡreɪnd/ Having a grain or grains.
1. Having grains, seeds, or particles. Obsolete except in parasynthetic derivatives, as large-grained, small-grained.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grenu, grained, full of graine, of seed, of graines.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 164 Small-grain'd Wheat.
2. Of wood, stone, leather, flesh, etc.: Having a grain, or granular structure or surface (see grain n.1 12 – 15). Often in parasynthetic derivatives, as coarse-grained, smooth-grained. (Cf. also cross-grained adj., fine-grained adj. 1)
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective]
graineda1529
grainy1611
arenaceous1646
granulary1646
granulous1699
granular1794
granuliform1847
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 32 Her skynne lose and slacke, Grained [v.r. Greuyned] lyke a sacke.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 54/1 The fleshe verye rubicund and grayned as we woulde desire.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Grained wood, madre, madriér.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 599 The corium..presented the same grained appearance that is observable in a section of the hides of the larger quadrupeds.
1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 137 Passages are usually painted, if some handsome grained wood be not introduced.
1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap vi. 161 To produce a grained soft-soap..it is essential to use pure potash lye.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry xi. 216 There is one [grain process] in which a grained glass is used.
3. Botany. Having tubercles, as the segments of the flowers of the Rumex.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > protuberance or lump > [adjective] > having protuberances
knoppy1562
gouty1597
warted1681
grumous1688
bunched1776
papulose1776
pustular1792
papulous1797
verrucose1802
grained1818
nodulated1824
verrucous1828
graniform1830
pustulatous moss1856
papuliferous1857
1818 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 6) IV. 7 Lichen graniformis. Tubercles black..granulated..Grained Lichen.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 293 Rumex Patientia..Valves cordate entire: one grained.
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grainedadj.3
/ɡreɪnd/ Having tines or prongs; forked. Also two-, three-grained.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > bifurcated
twiselc1000
forked1398
twisted1398
grained1513
bi-furked?1545
biforked1578
two-forked1579
crotched1587
forken1631
twi-forked1635
bifurcous1656
forky1702
swallow-tailed1726
bidential1730
bifurcate1835
bifurcated1853
bifurcal1861
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 42 With treis clois bilappit round about, And thik harsk granit pikis standand out.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiv An hole bored in ye borde with an auger. And therin a grayned stake of two fote longe.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K2v So slides he downe vppon his greyned bat.
1613–14 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) II. A man presented for an assault with a two graned staff.
1844 J. Tomlin Missionary Jrnls. 240 A hoe, a three grained fork intended as a sort of hand harrow.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Grain't, forked; divided.
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