To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
To make (something) deeply part of something else.
The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!
An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.
Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.
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