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Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

See Rakel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Rakelness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A relater; a storyteller.

The coypu.

One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.

See Racket.

Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.

imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede. Spenser.

imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

The ruddock. [Prov. Eng.]

A raid. [Scot.]

A float; a raft. Three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer. W. Irving.

Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.

An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

In a radial manner.

An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.

The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale.