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Same as Arrack.

To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.

One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.

A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]

A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono- nitrobenzene.

One who racks.

similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

es of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket- shaped.

Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

Making a tumultuous noise.

Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

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

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

See Bacharach.

See Bacharach.