Definition of graining

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