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Webster 1913 Edition
Ingrain
1.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
[Obs.]
2.
Dyed before manufacture, – said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
Ingrain carpet
, a double or two-ply carpet.
– Triple ingrain carpet
, a three-ply carpet.
In′grainˊ
,Noun.
An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
In′grainˊ
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ingrained
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ingraining
.] [Written also
engrain
.] 1.
To dye with or in grain or kermes.
2.
To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
3.
To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.
Our fields
ingrained
with blood. Daniel.
Cruelty and jealousy seem to be
ingrained
in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ingrain
IN'GRAIN
,Verb.
T.