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Noun: graining  grey-ning
  1. A texture like that of wood
    - woodgraining
Verb: grain  greyn
  1. Thoroughly work in
    "His hands were grained with dirt";
    - ingrain, engrain
     
  2. Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
     
  3. Form into grains
    - granulate
     
  4. Become granular
    - granulate

Derived forms: grainings

Type of: change form, change shape, deform, form, grain, paint, penetrate, perforate

Encyclopedia: Graining

Grain, Peter