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Webster 1913 Edition


Graining

Grain′ing

,
Noun.
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 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.

Grain′ing

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Graining

GRA'INING

,
Noun.
Indentation.
1.
A fish of the dace kind.