| bra | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, brassiere |
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| brace | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: bracing |
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| (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: bitstock |
| (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces |
| (noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else | - |
| (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: gallus, suspender |
| (noun) a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it | - |
| (noun) either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material | - |
| (noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: pair |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
| bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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| (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
| bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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| braces | (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces |
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| brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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| brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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| brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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| brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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| brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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| brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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| brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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| brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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| brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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| brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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| bracing | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
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| bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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| (noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
| bracket | (noun) a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | Synonyms: wall bracket |
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| (noun) either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: square bracket |
| (noun) either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: angle bracket |
| (noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | - |
| brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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| bract | (noun) a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence | - |
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| bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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| bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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| brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| bradycardia | (noun) abnormally slow heartbeat | - |
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| brae | (noun) a slope or hillside | - |
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| brag | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragging | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
| brahmin | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahman |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahman |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahman |
| braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| brail | (noun) a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in | - |
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| (noun) a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
| braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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| brain | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: encephalon |
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| (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat | - |
| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
| braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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| brainpan | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, cranium |
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| brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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| brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
| brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
| (noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
| (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
| (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
| brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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| brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
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| bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| bran | (noun) food prepared from the husks of cereal grains | - |
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| (noun) broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting | - |
| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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| branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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| branchiopod | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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| branchiopodan | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
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| branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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| brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
| (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
| (noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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| brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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| brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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| (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
| (noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
| (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
| brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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| brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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| (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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| bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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| bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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| brave | (noun) people who are brave | - |
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| (noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
| braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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| (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
| bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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| brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
| brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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| brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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| brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brazil | (noun) three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell | Synonyms: brazil nut |
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| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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| (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
| (noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |