Crossword clues for grained
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grained \Grained\ (gr[=a]nd), a.
Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.
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Dyed in grain; ingrained.
Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness.
--Sir T. Browne. Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
(Bot.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
Grain \Grain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grained (gr[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Graining.]
To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).
Wiktionary
1 Having a grain or grains 2 stained with an imitation wood grain 3 (''in combination'') Having a specified type of grain e.g. close-grained v
(en-past of: grain)
Usage examples of "grained".
The walls were papered in a pattern of faded nasturtiums, the woodwork grained to look like walnut.
The fine grained skin which should have been delicate and firm had coarsened also and upon close inspection showed multitudes of tiny lines.
For stone and earth had been crushed, compressed, into a smooth, m icroscopically grained, adamantine complex, and in this m atrix poppies still bearing traces of their coloring were i m bedded like fossils.
In the room with walls bound like books in large grained, crushed morocco, Chadwick and Count Donatien Alphonse Francois, marquis de Sade, sat in high-backed chairs playing chess at a C Fifteen moneychanger's table.
Three thousand years earlier the Order had built the main body of the house along classic lines of laser-cut granite, long clary windows and beautifully grained woods: jewood and Japanese cherry and shatterwood beams rubbed with scented waxes.
For stone and earth had been crushed, compressed, into a smooth, microscopically grained, adamantine complex, and in this matrix poppies still bearing traces of their coloring were imbedded like fossils.
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant, and that is how I did feel—as if I were invisible to the naked eye and some of those Sophs might step on me.
It was a hard bare masculine bedroom with a polished wood floor, a couple of small throw rugs in an Indian design, two straight chairs, a bureau in dark grained wood with a man's toilet set and two black candles in foot-high brass candlesticks.