graining

Verb

• Present participle of grain

Noun

• The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
• Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
• A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
• The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
• A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.