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ten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell.

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt. Burnt sienna, sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire. -- Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.

That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. -- Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. -- Silk-cotton tree (Bot.), a name for several tropical trees of the gen…

Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.

Unmanufactured material; raw material.

Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]

r burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish. [Obs.] I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.

Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. [Colloq.]

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]