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Race

Definition: To raze.

Race

Definition: A root.

Race

Definition: The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe,
people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a
lineage; a breed.

Race

Definition: Company; herd; breed.

Race

Definition: A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated
by seed.

Race

Definition: Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that
quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as
in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

Race

Definition: Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

Race

Definition: A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

Race

Definition: Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

Race

Definition: Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a
contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating,
rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the
running of horses; as, he attended the races.

Race

Definition: Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;
hence, career; course of life.

Race

Definition: A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage
for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced
by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of
Alderney.

Race

Definition: The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel
in which it flows; a mill race.

Race

Definition: A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and
forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

Race

Definition: To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals
raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

Race

Definition: To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw,
when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

Race

Definition: To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as,
to race horses.

Race

Definition: To run a race with.