Graining

Definition:

  • (n.) Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
  • (n.) A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
  • (n.) Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.
  • (n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
  • (n.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.