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A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

Somewhat raw. [R.] Marston.

In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.

The quality or state of being raw.

To array. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. Italian ray, or rye, grass. See Darnel, and Grass.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. [Turkey.]

Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.

Ray; beam. [Obs.] Spenser.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

Slashed or striped in patterns. [Obs.] "Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes." Shak.

An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head. "Take thee a barber's rasor." Ezek. v. 1.

Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.

Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. [R.] Shak.

The rorqual.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a rai