1. grains - Noun
2. grains - Verb
See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe 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