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See: character, disposition, frame, inclination, iota, modicum, scintilla GRAIN, weight. The twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight.
GRAIN, corn. It signifies wheat, rye, barley, or other corn sown in the ground In Pennsylvania, a tenant for a certain term is entitled to the way- going crop. 5 inn. 289, 258; 2 Binn. 487; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 14. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The "pinhole" process itself, applied to a commercial developing paper that is intended for color enlargements, yields images totally unlike the typical Cibachrome print, with its saturated colors and grainless high resolution. Nasmyth's and James Carpenter's photographs of rather inaccurate plaster models of the moon which, paradoxically, relied on a laborious method called the Woodburytype process to achieve their grainless surfaces. |
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