Grains

(n. pl.) See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

(n.) Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

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• Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• As you say, there appear to be grains of sawdust in it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When dry, dip the paper into a solution of iodide of potassium, containing 500 grains dissolved in 1 pint of water, and let it remain in the solution two or three minutes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In alluvial deposits it is extracted by washing, in dust grains, lamin? or nuggets. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When it is desired to color the lips add 20 grains of carmine. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He is vulnerable to reason there--always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The grains are afterward saturated with saltpetre. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The human body, cloth, leather, metals, wood and grains, everything that needs rubbing, cleaning, painting and polishing, meets the acquaintance of the brush. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These ingots are passed between steel rollers till they form long ribbons of such thinness that a square inch will weigh six and one-half grains. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Libra, a pound, understood in prescription to apply to an officinal pound of 5,760 grains. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It is thus described:--Dissolve 100 grains of crystallized nitrate of silver in 6 ounces of distilled water. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• If he was left alive till I came, I'd grind his skull under the iron heel of my boot into as many grains as there are hairs upon his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Divided Feeds for Separate Grains and Fertilizing Material. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• By the road the black-thorn was in blossom, white and wet, its tiny amber grains burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Separating rice grains by flailing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Had the birds, carrying some grains of it to a distance, dropped one over him as they sow chance seeds? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Here Mr. Perker drew himself up with conscious dignity, and brushed some stray grains of snuff from his shirt frill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then, in 1726, Dr. Hales told how many cubic inches of gas a certain number of grains of coal would produce. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Just a few grains? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Corn, wheat, rye, in fact all cereals and grains, potatoes, and most vegetables are rich in carbohydrates; as are also sugar, molasses, honey, and maple sirup. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Therewith Miss Jenny related what had come to pass in the Albany, omitting the few grains of pepper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Each bottle contains: Extract of Lycopus Virginiana (the herb) 308 grains. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The watchmaker, unassisted by the magnifying glass, could not detect the tiny grains of dust or sand which clog the delicate wheels of our watches. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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