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▪ I. † ˈingrain, n.1 Obs.
[Origin unascertained.]
A quarter of a chaldron of coal given in for every five chaldrons purchased.
1730Act 3 Geo. II, c. 26 §10 By ancient Custom in the Port of London, one Chaldron of Coals is allowed in to every Score brought on board Ship..which is called Ingrain; notwithstanding which many Persons dealing in Coals do load the same from on board Ship bare Measure without the aforesaid Ingrain. 1765Lond. Chron. 16 May 470 The action was for not delivering to the buyers the ingrain of two fives, as metered from on board ship, but took three sacks out of each five.
▪ II. ingrain, a. (n.2)
[f. the phrase in grain; see grain n.1 10. Now usually stressed ˈinˌgrain before a n., ˌinˈgrain after it or in the predicate.]
A. adj.
1. a. Dyed in grain; dyed with fast colours before manufacture; dyed in the fibre; thoroughly dyed.
1766W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 428, 4 pink ingrain calimancoes. 1880Plain Hints Needlework 44, 1 yd. Ingrain marking cotton, No. 100.
b. Applied (chiefly in U.S.) to carpets of the Kidderminster type, in which the pattern goes through and through and appears on both sides, as distinguished from those (such as Axminster or Brussels) in which it appears on the upper surface only.
1836Penny Cycl. 314/1 Kidderminster..carpets, or, as the Americans more descriptively term them, ingrain carpets. 1863B. Taylor Hannah Thurston III. 285 Bute had bought a brownish ingrain carpet. 1879‘E. Garrett’ House by Works II. 132, I urge you not to wait till I can exchange this ingrain drugget for a Turkey carpet. 1899Correspt., Ingrain carpets are generally of inferior quality; but they can be made of very high qualities.
2. a. Of qualities, dispositions, habits, etc.: Inborn, inherent, firmly fixed, inveterate, ingrained.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xix. 191 His old court pride..was ingrain, bred in the bone. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xiv. (1879) 137 Too old for changing of ingrain, long-nurtured habits. 1888T. W. Higginson Women & Men 307 The shy graces of character must be something that is ingrain and permanent. 1894F. M. Elliot Rom. Goss. i. 19 A proof of the ingrain humanity of his soul.
b. Thorough, out-and-out, to the backbone.
1865Daily Tel. 29 May, The most perfect type of the ingrain, hardened criminal.
B. n.
1. a. ‘A name given to yarns, wools, etc., dyed with fast colours before manufacture’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). b. (U.S.) = ingrain carpet: see 1 b. (Funk 1893.)
2. That which is ingrain or inherent.
1899J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul vi. 49 The natives of the Australian North-West were a fine race physically, and, he judged, had an ingrain of Malay blood. 1918P. T. Forsyth This Life & the Next v. 55 It is the holy as what might be called the ingrain, the tissue, the physiognomy of eternal love.
▪ III. ingrain
obs. or arch. variant of engrain v. |