| morning star | | |
| n. (object) | 1. daystar, lucifer, morning star, phosphorus | a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky. |
| ~ major planet, planet | (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction. |
| venus | | |
| n. (object) | 1. venus | the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'.; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer" |
| ~ inferior planet | any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit. |
| ~ solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field. |
| ~ terrestrial planet | a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system. |
| n. (person) | 2. urania, venus | goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite. |
| ~ roman deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans. |
| n. (animal) | 3. genus venus, venus | type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells. |
| ~ mollusk genus | a genus of mollusks. |
| ~ family veneridae, veneridae | hard-shell clams. |
| ~ hard clam, mercenaria mercenaria, venus mercenaria, hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam | an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians. |
| grain | | |
| n. (object) | 1. grain | a relatively small granular particle of a substance.; "a grain of sand"; "a grain of sugar" |
| ~ granule | a tiny grain. |
| ~ corpuscle, mote, particle, atom, molecule, speck | (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything. |
| n. (food) | 2. cereal, food grain, grain | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
| ~ food product, foodstuff | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. |
| ~ edible corn, corn | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food. |
| ~ grist | grain intended to be or that has been ground. |
| ~ groats | the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals. |
| ~ millet | small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica. |
| ~ barley, barleycorn | a grain of barley. |
| ~ buckwheat | grain ground into flour. |
| ~ wheat, wheat berry | grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour. |
| ~ oat | seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats'). |
| ~ rice | grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished. |
| ~ indian rice, wild rice | grains of aquatic grass of North America. |
| ~ malt | a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling. |
| n. (substance) | 3. grain | the side of leather from which the hair has been removed. |
| ~ leather | an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. grain, metric grain | a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat. |
| ~ metric weight unit, weight unit | a decimal unit of weight based on the gram. |
| ~ mg, milligram | one thousandth (1/1,000) gram. |
| ~ decigram, dg | 1/10 gram. |
| n. (quantity) | 5. grain | 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
| ~ troy unit | any of the unit of the troy system of weights. |
| ~ apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight | any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces. |
| ~ scruple | a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains. |
| ~ pennyweight | a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains. |
| n. (quantity) | 6. grain | 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
| ~ avoirdupois unit | any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights. |
| ~ dram | 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams. |
| n. (plant) | 7. caryopsis, grain | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. |
| ~ amaranth | seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America. |
| ~ barleycorn | a grain of barley. |
| ~ wheat berry | a grain of wheat. |
| ~ kernel | a single whole grain of a cereal.; "a kernel of corn" |
| ~ rye | the seed of the cereal grass. |
| ~ seed | a small hard fruit. |
| n. (plant) | 8. grain | a cereal grass.; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas" |
| ~ cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
| n. (attribute) | 9. grain | the smallest possible unit of anything.; "there was a grain of truth in what he said"; "he does not have a grain of sense" |
| ~ littleness, smallness | the property of having a relatively small size. |
| n. (attribute) | 10. grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric.; "saw the board across the grain" |
| ~ texture | the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality. |
| ~ wood grain, woodgrain, woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood. |
| ~ graining, woodgraining | a texture like that of wood. |
| n. (attribute) | 11. grain, texture | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance).; "breadfruit has the same texture as bread"; "sand of a fine grain"; "fish with a delicate flavor and texture"; "a stone of coarse grain" |
| ~ physical composition, composition, make-up, makeup, constitution | the way in which someone or something is composed. |
| v. (contact) | 12. grain, ingrain | thoroughly work in.; "His hands were grained with dirt" |
| ~ penetrate, perforate | pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance.; "The bullet penetrated her chest" |
| v. (contact) | 13. grain | paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood. |
| ~ paint | apply paint to; coat with paint.; "We painted the rooms yellow" |
| v. (change) | 14. grain, granulate | form into grains. |
| ~ granulate, grain | become granular. |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| v. (change) | 15. grain, granulate | become granular. |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
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