loose grains
1loose-cut — looseˈ cut noun A disease of cereal crops caused by a parasitic fungus, Ustilago nuda, that reduces the grains to powder • • • Main Entry: ↑loose …
2loose smut — noun 1. disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores • Hypernyms: ↑smut 2. a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores • Hypernyms: ↑smut …
3loose smut — noun Date: 1890 a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores …
4Abrasive — An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away. While finishing a material often means polishing it to gain a smooth, reflective surface …
5lithification — /lith euh fi kay sheuhn/, n. Geol. the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation. Also called induration. [1870 75; LITH + I + FICATION] * * * Complex process… …
6Eliza Frances Andrews: The Journal of a Georgia Girl — ▪ Primary Source Eliza Andrews saw the work of Sherman s army about fifty miles east of Dolly Lunt Burge at the end of November. The extracts published here recount her views of the Burnt Country, a swath of territory that had been… …
7powder — [n] fine, loose grains made by crushing a solid crumb, dust, film, grain, grit, meal, particle, pounce, pulverulence, seed, talc; concepts 471,831 Ant. solid powder [v] crush into fine grains; sprinkle fine grains abrade, bray, comminute, cover,… …
8rattle — 1. noun a) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard. b) a babys toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow… …
9powdery — [adj] consisting of fine, loose grains arenaceous, arenose, branny, chalky, crumbling, crumbly, dry, dusty, fine, floury, friable, grainy, granular, gravelly, gritty, impalpable, loose, mealy, pulverized, pulverulent, sandy; concept 606 Ant.… …
10A Bonhami — Sand Sand, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.] 1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent …
