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instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. Specifically:

ins. Rush. -- Radical quantity (Alg.), a quantity to which the radical sign is prefixed; specifically, a quantity which is not a perfect power of the degree indicated by the radical sign; a surd. -- Radical sign (Math.), the sign sq. root (originally the letter r, the initial of radix, root), placed before any quanti…

The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

Rooted; specifically:

A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radiomuscular, radiocarpal.

being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: --

Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:

One who, or that which, rams or drives. Specifically:

That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne.

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.

erance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. Specifically:

One who reads. Specifically:

One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as a bore of a cannon, etc.

eaping hook, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. Milton.

d desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing any…

One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.

Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.