enotes the component particles of stones and metals, the veins of wood, &c. Hence cross-grained, or against the grain, means contrary to the fibres, of wood, &c.

Grain (Baptist le), master of the requests in ordinary to Mary de Medicis queen of France's household, wrote The History of Henry the Great, and of Louis XIII. from the beginning of his reign to the death of the marshal d'Ancré in 1617. This history is reckoned to be wrote with impartiality, and the spirit of a true patriot; and contains many things not to be found anywhere else. He vigorously afflicts the edict that had been granted to the reformed.

GRALLÆ, in ornithology, is an order of birds analogous to the bruta in the class of mammalia, in the Linnaean system. See ZOOLOGY and ORNITHOLOGY.