grain Copy link Outline I. A small particle1. grānum (strictly a small seed)2. mĭca (a granular particle3. partĭcŭlaII. CornIII. The course of veining or fibres • grain: I. A small particle: 1. grānum (strictly a small seed): a g. of wheat, g. tritici, Pl.: a g. of pepper, g. piperis, Plin.: a g. of salt, g. salis, Plin. 2. mĭca (a granular particle: not a seed): a g. of gold, m. auri, Lucr.: a g. of salt, m. salis, Plin.: the crackling g. (of salt), saliens m., Hor. Od. 3, 23, extr. Fig.: there is not one g. of salt (sense) in all that body, nulla in tam magno est corpore m., Cat. 86, 4. 3. partĭcŭla: v. particle. II. Corn: frūmentum: v. corn. III. The course of veining or fibres: Phr.: to cut timber across the g., *materiam transversis fibris caedere: wood very fine in the g., *lignum fibris tenuissimis: v. fibre. Fig.: against the g. (i. e. contrary to one's nature): invita Minerva ut aiunt, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110: Hor.
grain (v.) Copy link • grain (v.): i. e. to mark timber with painted veining: *pingendo ligni, marmoris, etc., speciem imitari.
GRAIN Copy link • GRAIN 1. s. A single seed of corn, granum (in all the meanings of the English word; e.g., of corn, salt, etc., but mica salis, after Plin., 22, 16, 14, does not mean “grain,” but “a few grains,” the former being always expressed by granum salis, Plin., 23, 8, 77). Corn, Vid: The seed of any fruit, semen: *granum seminale. A small particle; e.g., a grain of salt; Vid: above. Often by aliquid with genitive, or aliquis in agreement. Some grain of allowance, aliquid veniae or aliqua venia. Anything must receive a grain of allowance, dandum est aliquid alicui rei: anything may receive some grain of allowance, est quatenus alicui rei dari venia possit (Cic.): a grain of gold, auri granum. The smallest weight, *granum. The veins or fibres of inanimate bodies, vena (in metals, marble, trees, etc): fibra (in plants): meatus ligni (in wood); hence (IMPROP.) “against the grain,” invita Minerva, ut aiunt (Cic.), or (after his definition) adversante et repugnante natura. (To dye, etc) in grain, *fila singula (or fila ipsa nondum intexta) colorare or inficere: hence a rogue in grain, insignite improbus; veterator (an old hand); *homo plane inlectus vitiis (after Cic., Tusc., 3, 2; and Leg., 3, 13, 30); or trifurcifer, etc., totus ex fraude factus. Dyed or stained substance; e.g., of dark grain, etc.; Vid. COLOR, DYE. 2. v. (of wood) *marmori maculoso simile facere aliquid (like marble): *venas or meatum ligni pingendo imitari (like wood).