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A root. "A race or two of ginger." Shak. Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.

The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A salt of racemic acid.

A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne.

axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids. Gregory.…

Bearing racemes, as the currant.

Having the form of a raceme. Gray.

Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. Gray.

See Racemose.

A little raceme.

Growing in very small racemes.

One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse. And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. Pope.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

See Aggrace. [Obs.]

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

istills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.