·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Grain.
II. Graining ·noun Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
III. Graining ·noun The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
IV. Graining ·noun Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, ·etc.
V. Graining ·noun A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
VI. Graining ·noun A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.