INGRAIN • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Ingrain

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Ingrain v. t. (past & past part. ingrained; pres. part. ingraining)

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." "Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all."

adjective

Ingrain adj.

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.

noun

Ingrain n. An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.

See images of 'Ingrain'

Etymology of 'Ingrain'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Ingrain" Quotes from Famous Books

... Self-deceived, mistaken child! When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected! It has been tried many times by other daughters, Minnie; it has never succeeded; nothing has ever come ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... leave of his dear parents, and removed into our own "rented house;" and that you may be enabled to place us there, I will describe our two best rooms, which were separated by a folding-door, and used as parlor and dining rooms. They were neatly furnished, with nice ingrain carpets, cane-bottom chairs, an extension dining table, and very pretty, straw-colored Venetian window-blinds, trimmed with dark blue cords and tassels. A mahogany work-stand—the only article ordered from "the ...

— A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless - In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren • Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

... see with Him that nothing but an infinite Passion can expiate it. If you could but fathom the human heart as God fathoms it, you would know as He knows, that nothing less than regeneration can purify its fountains of uncleanness, and cleanse it from its ingrain corruption. ...

— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... bettered him, if it had not accomplished the impossible and transmuted the pirate of body into the pure of soul. It would not be true to say that he never thought lewdly of her; he would have thought lewdly of an angel or a vestal maid; that was ingrain in the composition of the man; but he thought well of her as he had never thought well of women before since he first scorched his stripling's fingers, and he would have killed twenty men to keep her from hearing a ...

— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... wonder that they made friends where their intimacy was sought and appreciated. There was nothing underbred about themselves; both were ladies ingrain, though Arthurine was abrupt and sometimes obtrusive, but they had not lived a life such as to render them sensitive to the lack of fine edges in others, and were quite ready to be courted by those who gave the meed ...

— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge

Copyright © 2026 Free-Translator.com