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Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
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graining
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface. 2 Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. 3 A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 4 (context soap manufacture English) The process of separating ...
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n. a texture like that of wood [syn: woodgraining ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Graining \Grain"ing\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small European fresh-water fish ( Leuciscus vulgaris ); -- called also dobule , and dace .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Graining is the practice of imitating wood grain on a non-wood surface in order to increase that surface's aesthetic appeal. Graining was common in the 19th century, as people were keen on imitating hard, expensive woods by applying a superficial layer ...
Usage examples of graining.
Varieties of light glanced off the surface borders of air and water, water and glass, glass and oil, the whole room a medium of nonuniform density, these propagating waves graining her body, soon to be rubbed and soaped and misted, transformed in displaceable mass, passing through itself, beauty bare, an unfalsifiable and self-blinding essence, not subject to the judgments of mirrors, what Euclid might have danced to in the summer dusk.
This was the picture he loved, one which meant home and security for him: the father working with tempered iron chisels to round a fluted column, the youngest son beveling a set of steps, one of the older two carving a delicate window frame, the other graining a door panel, the grandfather polishing a column on a pumice wheelstone with thin river sand.