grained's Usage Examples:

The basaltic magmas solidified into coarse-grained gabbroic rocks which form the earliest Cuillin Center.

English is so strong and it becomes so engrained that often many people just decide not to speak Gaelic later.

In other respects the Hirado factories do not produce wares nearly so beautiful as those manufactured there between 1759 and 1840, when the Hirado-yakz stood at the head of all Japanese porcelain on account of its pure, close-grained pate, its lustrous milk-white glaze, and the soft clear blue of its carefully executed decoration.

Of the rarer woods particular mention may be made of curly pine, yielding a wood of beautiful figure and polish; magnolia, hard, close-grained, of fine polish and of great lasting qualities; and cypress, light, strong, easily worked and never-rotting.

The new power which now rose, to the first rank, created by Philip of Macedon, bad no engrained tendency inimical to the Persian.

The ascent of the Wrekin, along the main track, initially found dark fine-grained dolerites, which were very weathered and somewhat crumbly.

of the best rubble masonry, an ashlar floor of blocks of close-grained trachyte being laid directly under the bridge, where the action was severest.

Elm is very liable to warp and shake, is porous and usually cross-grained.

They vary in texture from a fine-grained compact oolite to a coarse-grained rock composed of angular or rounded fragments, and they commonly exhibit strongly marked false bedding.

In these traits are engrained the general conditions of history and culture, under which the Iranians lived: on the one hand, the contrast between Iranian and Turanian; on the other, the dominating position of Babylon, which influenced most strongly the civilization and religion of Iran.

Its fine-grained, unstratified silt contains the remains of many terrestrial animals, including fifteen mammals.

The live oak is one of the most valuable timber trees of the genus, the wood being extremely durable, both exposed to air and under water; heavy and closegrained, it is perhaps the best of the American oaks for shipbuilding, and is invaluable for water-wheels and mill-work.

The passages were all cut in a closegrained stone, and are very narrow, with arched ceilings, running very irregularly, and ramifying in all direc tions.

Synonyms:

harsh, granulose, farinaceous, granular, gritty, coarse, grainy, mealy,

Antonyms:

pleasant, starchless, achondritic, cowardly, fine,