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Definition of Graining
1. Noun. A texture like that of wood.
Definition of Graining
1. n. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
2. n. A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - - called also dobule, and dace.
Definition of Graining
1. Verb. (present participle of grain) ¹
2. Noun. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface in order to increase that surface's aesthetic appeal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Graining
1. grain [v] - See also: grain
Medical Definition of Graining
1.
1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
3. Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.
4. The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graining
Literary usage of Graining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon (1906)
"For the graining colour, rub up whiting in turpentine, add enough burnt umber
... After combing the veins and removing any superfluous graining colour from ..."
2. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Painting and graining New Interior Woodwork. All knots and sap-wood are to be
... The graining is to be done in the best manner in imitation of the hardwood ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... with teeth on the under side, called a graining-board, is first applied to
the flesh-side, which is called graining ; then to the grain-side, ..."
4. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals by Georg Langbein (1898)
"operation called graining, by which a grained and slightly dead ... This operation
gives strength to the graining, which without it possesses no adherence. ..."
5. Beet-sugar Manufacture and Refining by Lewis Sharpe Ware (1907)
"The method in question is based upon graining after-products of "firsts." For this
it is not absolutely necessary that the crystals should be spontaneously ..."
6. Classified Guide to Technical and Commercial Books: A Subject-list of the by Edgar Greenwood (1904)
"HOUSE PAINTING, graining, Marbling and Sign Writing, by EA Davidson. Cr. 8vo.
... PRACTICAL ARTS OF graining and Marbling. Folio. 14 parts. Col. ..."
7. Classified Guide to Technical and Commercial Books: A Subject-list of the by Edgar Greenwood (1904)
"PRACTICAL ARTS OF graining and Marbling. Folio. 14 parts. Col. ... PRACTICAL graining
AND MARBLING, ed. by PN Hasluck. Cr. 8vo. 160 pp. 79 Illus. 1902. ..."
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