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1,304 words match “RACE”

PRODUCE RACE n.
A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry.
PULVERACEOUS a.
Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.
REBRACE v.
To brace again. Gray.
REEMBRACE v.
To embrace again.
REREBRACE n.
Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.
RETRACE v. 3 definitions
To trace back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden.
SARACEN n.
, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.
SARACENIC; SARACENICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. "Saracenic music." Sir W. Scott.
SARRACENIA n.
A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
SCAPEGRACE n.
A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
STERCORACEOUS a.
Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
TAILRACE n. 2 definitions
See Race, n., 6.
TARRACE n.
See Trass. [Obs.]
TERRACE n. 6 definitions
A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.
THORACENTESIS n.
The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
THOROUGH-BRACE n.
A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.
TORACE; TORASE v.
To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.
TORCH RACE n.
A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.
TRACE n. 12 definitions
ark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.
TRACEABLE a.
Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.
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