graining

graining has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Grain
• 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.
• n.. a texture like that of wood