Graining meaning : To feed grain to. To make granular; to form into grains. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin. (tanning) To soften leather. To yield fruit. 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. (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.