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GRAIN

Volume 10 · 53 words · 1823 Edition

corn of all sorts, as barley, oats, rye, &c. See CORN, WHEAT, &c.

GRAIN is also the name of a small weight, the twentieth part of a scruple in apothecaries weight, and the twenty-fourth of a pennyweight troy.

A grain-weight of gold-bullion is worth two-pence, and that of silver but half a farthing.