Part 4941

<cs><col>Granular limestone</col>, <cd>crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.</cd></cs>

<h1>Granularly</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*lar*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a granular form.</def>

<h1>Granulary</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*la*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Granular.</def>

<h1>Granulate</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Granulated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Granulating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Granule</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form into grains or small masses; <as>as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.</def>

<h1>Granulate</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*late</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To collect or be formed into grains; <as>as, cane juice <ex>granulates</ex> into sugar</as>.</def>

<h1>Granulate, Granulated</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw><hw>Gran"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Gran"u*la`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; <as>as, <ex>granulated</ex> sugar</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.</def>

<cs><col>Granulated steel</col>, <cd>a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.</cd></cs>

<h1>Granulation</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran`u*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>granulation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; <as>as, the <ex>granulation</ex> of powder and sugar</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being granulated.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The act or process of the formation of such prominences.</def>

<h1>Granule</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"ule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>granulum</ets>, dim. of granum grain: cf. F. <ets>granule</ets>. See <er>Grain</er> a kernel.]</ety> <def>A little grain a small particle; a pellet.</def>

<h1>Granuliferous</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran`u*lif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Granule</ets> + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <def>Full of granulations.</def>

<h1>Granuliform</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gra*nu"li*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Granule</ets> + <ets>-form</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Having a granular structure; granular; <as>as, granuliform limestone</as>.</def>

<h1>Granulite</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Granule</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.</def>

<h1>Granulose</h1> <Xpage=645>

<hw>Gran"u*lose`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Granule</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.</def>