BARLEY Synonyms

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

• annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

• seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

• the seed of the cereal grass

• hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

• whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

• annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

• grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

• a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

• made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

• grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• a breakfast food prepared from grain

• a grain of barley

• a grain of barley