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A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

Talkativeness. [R.]

Talkative. [R.] W. Taylor.

f running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races. The race is not to the swift. Eccl. ix. 11. I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. Pope.…

A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajæ, and Rajii.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.

An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]

Skating in a rink. [Colloq.]

A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. They ran the ship aground. Acts xxvii. 41. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets. Ray. Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. Locke.

One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

The friar skate. [Scot.]

See Skate, for the foot.

hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.] But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.

t is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.