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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRAINING

n.Indentation. 1. A fish of the dace kind.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GRAINING

GRAINING Grain "ing, n.

 

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, atone, etc.

 

4. (Soap Making )

 

Defn: The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

 

GRAINING

GRAINING Grain "ing, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris ); - called also dobule, and dace.