quarter grain

noun

1. the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.

quarter grain

noun

1. the grain of quartersawn timber

Word History and Origins

Origin of quarter grain¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

The average opium-smoker consuming twenty-five pills a day gets only the equivalent of about a quarter grain of morphine taken hypodermically or of a half grain taken by the mouth.

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The only anesthetic was a quarter grain of novocain, administered locally.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Gaynor was thus engaged he managed to crawl from bed and take a quarter grain of morphia in addition to the other quarter that Gaynor had just given him.

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Repeated doses of strychnine acetas hypodermically given, but in quarter grain doses.

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Treatment.—Strychnine acetas injected in quarter grain doses under the skin and repeated as often as desirable.

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