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White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.

Of or pertaining to pyrites. See Pyritic.

Pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone) obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.

A root. "A race or two of ginger." Shak. Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.

The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A salt of racemic acid.

A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne.

axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

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 is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids. Gregory.…

Bearing racemes, as the currant.

Having the form of a raceme. Gray.

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 raceme. Gray.

See Racemose.

A little raceme.

Growing in very small racemes.

One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse. And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. Pope.