Grain
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To feed grain to. To make granular; to form into grains. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood. To remove the hair or fat from a skin. To soften leather.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. A single seed of grain. The crops from which grain is harvested. A linear texture of a material or surface. A single particle of a substance. A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams. A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
Example sentence: Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
Caryopsis
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.