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Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It...
Bearing racemes, as the currant.
Having the form of a raceme.
Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a race...
See Racemose.
A little raceme.
Growing in very small racemes.
Racer
3 defs
One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
Alt. of Rache
A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.
A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.
of Rachis
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
Same as Rhachilla.
Same as Rhachiodont.
Rachis
2 defs
Same as Rhachis.
of Rachis
Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.
Rachitis
2 defs
A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.
A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.
Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.
In a racy manner.
The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.
Racing
2 defs
a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.
Rack
25 defs
A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
Rack-rent
2 defs
A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.
Rack-renter
2 defs
One who exacts rack-rent.
A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
of Rack
Racker
2 defs
A horse that has a racking gait.
Racket
10 defs
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.
Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
of Racket
One who makes, or engages in, a racket.
of Racket
An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
Making a tumultuous noise.
Racking
2 defs
of Rack
An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.
Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.
See Rakel.
See Rakelness.
A relater; a storyteller.
The coypu.
One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.
See Racket.
Racy
2 defs
Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede.