graining

• ⇰ Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
• ⇰ A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
• ⇰ Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.
• ⇰ The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
• ⇰ A small European fresh-water fish (<spn>Leuciscus vulgaris</spn>); -- called also dobule>, and dace>.