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Matt. v. 22.
||Ra`ca`hout" , n. A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
Raccoon dog , the tanate. -- Raccoon fox , the cacomixle.
Race , v. t. To raze. Spenser.
Race , n. A root. "A race or two of ginger." Shak.
Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.
Race, n.
The whole race of mankind.
Shak.
Whence the long race of Alban fathers come.
Dryden.
Naturalists and ethnographers divide mankind into several distinct varieties, or races. Cuvier refers them all to three, Pritchard enumerates seven, Agassiz eight, Pickering describes eleven. One of the common classifications is that of Blumenbach, who makes five races: the Caucasian, or white race, to which belong the greater part of the European nations and those of Western Asia; the Mongolian, or yellow race, occupying Tartary, China, Japan, etc.; the Ethiopian, or negro race, occupying most of Africa , Australia, Papua, and other Pacific Islands; the American, or red race, comprising the Indians of North and South America; and the Malayan, or brown race, which occupies the islands of the Indian Archipelago, etc. Many recent writers classify the Malay and American races as branches of the Mongolian. See Illustration in Appendix.
For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds.
Shak.
Is it of the right race ?
Massinger.
And now I give my sensual race the rein.
Shak.
Some . . . great race of fancy or judgment.
Sir W. Temple.
Syn. -- Lineage; line; family; house; breed; offspring; progeny; issue.
Race, n. 1. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
Bacon.
The race is not to the swift.
Eccl. ix. 11.
I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race.
Pope.
My race of glory run, and race of shame.
Milton.
The part of the channel above the wheel is sometimes called the headrace, the part below, the tailrace.
Race cloth, a cloth worn by horses in racing, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed. -- Race course. The path, generally circular or elliptical, over which a race is run. Same as Race way, below. -- Race cup, a cup given as a prize to the victor in a race. -- Race glass, a kind of field glass. -- Race horse. A horse that runs in competition; specifically, a horse bred or kept for running races. A breed of horses remarkable for swiftness in running. The steamer duck. A mantis. -- Race knife, a cutting tool with a blade that is hooked at the point, for marking outlines, on boards or metals, as by a pattern, -- used in shipbuilding. -- Race saddle, a light saddle used in racing. -- Race track. Same as Race course , above. -- Race way, the canal for the current that drives a water wheel.
Race, v. i. 1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
Race, v. t. 1. To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.
Ra"cer , n. 1. One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize.
Pope.
, n. A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.
||Ra"chis , n.; pl. E. Rachises , L. Rachides . 1. The spine; the vertebral column.
Ra"cial , a. Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.
The general characteristics of his style were perspicuity, unequaled and inimitable; . . . a purity always simple, and raciness often elegant.
London Times.
Ra"cing , a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.
Racing crab , an ocypodian.
Rack , n. Same as Arrack.
Rack, n. The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
Rack, n. A wreck; destruction.
Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. -- To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. "All goes to rack." Pepys.
Rack, n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. Shak.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise.
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