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Girl/Female
Arabic
Beautiful
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Happiness
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Dutch, French, Gaelic, Irish
Little Seal; A Pledge
Girl/Female
British, English
From the Rose Bush; Old English for Rose
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Smart
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Peace of God
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Peace
Boy/Male
Tamil
Madhukanta | மதà¯à®•ாஂத
The Moon
Boy/Male
Basque Greek
God of wine.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Introduction; Preface; Opener; Conqueror; Beginning
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n.
A close-grained, neavy wood of a brownish color, brought from Brazil, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like.
a.
Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained.
n.
Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
n.
An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.
n.
The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
a.
Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
n.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
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The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
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A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
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The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
n.
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.
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The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
a.
Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
n.
A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.
n.
The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
n.
An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.
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a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.
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The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
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A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.