Ra*bid"i*ty (r*bd"*t), n. Rabidness; furiousness.
Rab"id*ly (rb"d*l), adv. In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
Rab"id*ness, n. The quality or state of being rabid.
||Ra"bi*es (r"b*z), n. [L. See Rage, n.] Same as Hydrophobia (b);
||canine madness.
Rab"i*net (rb"*nt), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mil.) A kind of small
ordnance formerly in use. [Written also rabanet.] Ainsworth.
Ra"bi*ous (r"b*s), a. Fierce. [Obs.] Daniel.
Ra"bot (r"bt), n. [F.] A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble
to be polished. Knight.
||Ra"ca (r"k), a. [Gr. "raka`, from Chaldee rk.] A term of reproach
||used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."
Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
council.
Matt. v. 22.
||Ra`ca`hout" (r`k`"), n. [F. racahout, probably fr. Ar. rqaut.] A
||preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for
||chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
Rac*coon" (rk*kn"), n. [F. raton, prop., a little rat, fr. rat rat,
perhaps of German origin. See Rat.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Raccoon dog (Zoöl.), the tanate. -- Raccoon fox (Zoöl.), the cacomixle.
Race (rs), v. t. To raze. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Race (rs), n. [OF. raïz, L. radix, -icis. See Radix.] A root. "A race
or two of ginger." Shak.
Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.
Race, n. [F. race; cf. Pr. & Sp. raza, It. razza; all from OHG. reiza
line, akin to E. write. See Write.]
1. 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.
The whole race of mankind.
Shak.
Whence the long race of Alban fathers come.
Dryden.
Naturalists and ethnographers divide mankind into several distinct
varieties, or races. Cuvier refers them all to three, Pritchard
enumerates seven, Agassiz eight, Pickering describes eleven. One of the
common classifications is that of Blumenbach, who makes five races: the
Caucasian, or white race, to which belong the greater part of the
European nations and those of Western Asia; the Mongolian, or yellow
race, occupying Tartary, China, Japan, etc.; the Ethiopian, or negro
race, occupying most of Africa (except the north), Australia, Papua,
and other Pacific Islands; the American, or red race, comprising the
Indians of North and South America; and the Malayan, or brown race,
which occupies the islands of the Indian Archipelago, etc. Many recent
writers classify the Malay and American races as branches of the
Mongolian. See Illustration in Appendix.