a.
A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning \"worthless.\"
n.
A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
n.
A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
n.
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.
n.
A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
n.
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.
n.
Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
n.
A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
n.
Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
n.
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.
n.
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
n.
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.
n.
The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
n.
A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
v. i.
To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.