What is another word for "grain"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "grain": affect, aid, analytical, applicability, aptitude, aptness, arroba, avoirdupois, baby, balance, ballast, beam, bend, bent, bias, bid, burden, burdensome, burthen, calculated, carat, carry, cast, centigram, conatus, conduce, conducive, conduciveness, contribute, counterpoise, cumber, cumbersome, cumbrous, direction, dispose, drachma, drift, fair, for, gram.