grains

Speech parts

1. grains - Noun

2. grains - Verb

Meaning

See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

corn mote speck sands bit particle sand seed grain trace kernel algae scrap ounce cereal
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Antonyms

legion bonanza chunk mess lots big number
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Phrases with the word

rock with very fine grains loose grains kefir grains

Anagrams

rasing Nargis sringa

Examples

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. Jorge Luis Borges

Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. Iain Banks

Blind hen also finds grains. Danish Proverb

He knows how many grains to a bushel of wheat. Irish Proverb

Even the blind chicken finds grains. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

grainlessness grainlike grainline grains of paradise grainsize grainstone