Definition of Graine

1. silkworm eggs [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graine

grain alcohol
grain boundary
grain elevator
grain elevators
grain field
grain itch
grain merchant
grain moth
grain of salt
grain refiner
grain refiners
grain sorghum
grain whisky
grainage
grainages
graine (current term)
grained
grainer
grainers
graines
grainfield
grainfields
grainier
grainiest
grainily
graininess
graininesses
graining
grainings
grainland

Literary usage of Graine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the Zebra and Hippopotamus: The Portugals Warres in those parts: The Fishing, graine, and other things remarkable. this Kingdome there is no kind of tame ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1893)
"place sitôt que le temps le permet ; on peut encore semer en pleine terre vers fin avril et repiquer quand le semis sera fort ; la graine, étant très fine, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"... graine and come out of the Realme of Englande, unto the partes be- yonde the ... but it causeth at suche tymes wheate graine and other kynde of corne as ..."

4. Faery Queene: Book I by Edmund Spenser, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1901)
"graine, vii. 1, 'deep in graine.' 'The phrase "to dye in grain" meant to dye of a fast colour, by means of cochineal, &c. ; whence grained, deeply dyed, ..."

5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1869)
"Stephen graine. April 7, 1695. Joseph (y1 son of Mary Swinnerton ye dau of Left"' ... Ebenezer and Ezekiel (ye sons of Ebenezer graine). June 16, 1695. ..."

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