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- English Word Racahout Definition A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
- English Word Raccoon Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition A root.
- English Word Race Definition To run a race with.
- English Word Race Definition To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
- English Word Race Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
- English Word Race Definition A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
- English Word Race Definition The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
- English Word Race Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- English Word Race Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
- English Word Race Definition To raze.
- English Word Race Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition Company; herd; breed.
- English Word Race Definition Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
- English Word Race Definition A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
- English Word Race Definition 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.
- English Word Race Definition Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.