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adjective

Grained adj.

Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.

Dyed in grain; ingrained. "Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. "

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.

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Etymology of 'Grained'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was kappelmeister; and the old cathedral with its grained arches and cloistered aisles resounded with rare music, as the organist took his seat, and run his fingers over the keys with the careless ease of one who knows not only to control, but to infuse something of his own spirit into the otherwise ...

— Scenes in Switzerland • American Tract Society

... the Tibetan for their material attitude towards a concept which to us is abstract and relational, lest we invite the reproaches of the Frenchman who feels a subtlety of relation in femme blanche and homme blanc that he misses in the coarser-grained white woman and white man. But the Bantu Negro, were he a philosopher, might go further and find it strange that we put in group II a category, the diminutive, which he strongly feels to belong to group III and which he uses, along with a number ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... coarse-grained slag, which creaks when walked on, and forms a fine black dust. Naturally the vegetation in this poor soil is very scanty,—only bushes and reed-grass, irregularly scattered in the valleys between little hillocks ranged in rows. This arid desert-scene ...

— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser

... refer especially to Huysmans' two "mystical" novels, En Route and La Cathedrale. The naked Fetishism of the latter book almost passes belief. We have a Madonna who is good-natured at Lourdes and cross-grained at La Salette; who likes "pretty speeches and little coaxing ways" in "paying court" to her, and who at the end is apostrophised as "our Lady of the Pillar," "our Lady of the Crypt." It may perhaps be excusable to resort to such expedients ...

— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

... over by a moral Nemesis, and issuing at last in the emancipation of every purified soul into infinite bliss, when, by the upward gravitation of spirit, they shall all have been strained through the successively finer growing filters of the worlds, from the coarse grained foundation of matter to the lower shore ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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