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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.

A flower cluster with an elongated 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.

A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.[Obs.]

A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.

Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.

Same as Rhachilla.

Same as Rhachiodont.

The spine; the vertebral column.

Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.