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Race
RACE, n. [L. radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, etc.]
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob. Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, etc.
Hence the long race of Alban fathers come.
2. A generation; a family of descendants. A race of youthful and unhandled colts.
3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
Of such a race no matter who is king.
4. A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized.
5. A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness.
RACE, n. [L. gradior, gressus, with the prefix g. Eng. ride.]
1. A running; a rapid course or motion, either on the feet, on horseback or in a carriage, etc.; particularly, a contest in running; a running in competition for a prize.
The race was one of the exercises of the Grecian games.
I wield the gauntlet and I run the race.
2. Any sunning with speed.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beast.
3. A progress; a course; a movement or progression of any kind.
My race of glory run.
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Heb 12.
4. Course; train; process; as the prosecution and race of the war. [Not now used.]
5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; as a mill-race.
6. By way of distinction, a contest in the running of horses; generally in the plural. The races commence in October.
RACE, v.i. To run swiftly; to run or contend in running. The animals raced over the ground.
race appears in definitions for these words:
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Abyssinian Adam Adolescence Albino Albinos Amazon American Anthropography Appellative Archchancellor Baneberry Base Bat Begin Being Bet Biarmian Blacksea Breed Brother Calve Career Carlovingian Cassowary Cast Chariot-race Child Clan Compound Confound Congener Conjugate Course Denominate Deteriorate Devil Diminutive Distance Distanced Dynasty Endeavor Eve Ewe Exterminate Extinct Extinguishment Extirpation Family Father Feese Feline Fellow-creature Feud Fish Founder G Genealogy Generation Generosity Genteel Gentile Giantry Gipsey Goal Habitation He Heat Heavenly Heroic Hippodrome Horsecourser Horserace House Human Humanity Humankind Incognizable Indigence Itch Jockey Judgment Kimbo Kind Kinsman Leucothiop Limitarian Lineage List Macao Man Manakin Mankind Mature Men Mother Mow Musk Nation Nature Negboor Neger Negress Negro Neighbor Of Paddock Partner Party Plate Posterity Press Privilege Profligate Progenitor Progeny Purse Pygmy Race Racemation Raceme Racemiferous Racemous Racer Radical Radicated Raise Rat Raze Reptile Resurrection Retrace Rod Run Runner Running Scour Seed Senseless Sept Servitude Short-lived Silvery Sinfulness Society Son Species Sprung Stadium Start Starting-post Stem Stirp Stock Stone Strain Strene Subsist Sway Trace Traduce Tress Tribe Turf Unilateral Vicious Vie Virile Waspish Wheat Whirl-bat Wilt Woman Womankind World
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