GRAM

I. noun Etymology: obsolete Portuguese (now spelled grão), grain, from Latin granum Date: 1702 any of several leguminous plants (as a chickpea) grown especially for their seed, II. noun see: carve Date: 1810 a metric unit of mass equal to 1/1000 kilo~ and nearly equal to the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density, the weight of a ~ under the acceleration of gravity, III. noun Etymology: by shortening & alteration Date: circa 1934 grandmother , IV. abbreviation ~mar; ~matical