(a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."
racahout
(n.) A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
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raccoon
(n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
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race
(v. t.) To raze.
(n.) A root.
(n.) The descendants of a common ancestor
a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock
a lineage
a breed.
(n.) Company
herd
breed.
(n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
(n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine
that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine
hence, characteristic flavor
smack.
(n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
(n.) A progress
a course
a movement or progression.
(n.) Esp., swift progress
rapid course
a running.
(n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition
a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing
in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses
as, he attended the races.
(n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged
hence, career
course of life.
(n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current
a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides
as, the Portland Race
the Race of Alderney.
(n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows
a mill race.
(n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
(v. i.) To run swiftly
to contend in a race
as, the animals raced over the ground
the ships raced from port to port.
(v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.