grain

grain
n
1. seed, kernel, groats, grist, ground grain, grits; cereal, wheat, buckwheat, barley, corn, maize, rye, oats, rice, millet.
2. particle, piece, bit, scrap, Scot. curn; speck, mite, moit, mote, dot, point, dab, fleck, speck, spot; smidgen, Inf. smitch, iota, molecule, atom, jot, whit, tittle; granule, crumb, morsel, taste, bite. See bit(defs.1, 2).
3. trace, touch, hint, trifle, a little bit; tinge, flavor, suggestion, suspicion, soupcon, tincture, Archaic. spice, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam.
4. texture, contexture, surface; intertexture, fabric, weave, warp and woof, nap, tooth; fiber, yarn, thread, filament.

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