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Show A Conteft in running 7. [Ras, landick. To defcribe races and game Or tilting' furniture Stand forth, ye champion Milron gauntle th wh Dryden Empty the woolly rack, and fill the reel ‘The cloud 5o [Racke, Dutch, a track. as they are driven by the wind ‘That, which is now a horfe, even with a though Or you the fwifteft racers of the field forth The rack diflimns, and makes it indiftiné Shak. Antony and Clespatra As water isin water ‘The great globe itfelf ye wreftlers who thefe p:{lfimc's grace 1 wield the gauntlet " :Pope ‘and I run the race 8. Courfe on the feet Progrefs 9 Yea, all, which it inherit, thall diffolve And, like this infubftantial pageant, faded birds is fivifter than the rac Bacon The flight of man ‘of any beafts We often fee againft fome ftorm A filence in the heav'ns, the rack ftand ftill The bold winds fpeechlefs, and the orb belo Shekefpeare's Hamnlet As huih as death The winds in the upper region, which mov whic It fuddenly fell from an excefs of favour many examples have taught them, never ftopt hi rac till it came to a headlong overthrow. - Sidney and race of thame Milt the cloud The great light of day yet wants to ru Much of hi race thoug He fafe return'd the race of glory paft Pope's Odyfley New to his friends embrace 10 Train procefs An offenfive war is made, which is unjuft i the aggreflor; the profecution and race of the wa carrieth the defendant to invade the ancient patrimony of the firft aggreffor, who is now turne and not put himfel defendant; fhall be fit down in defence Bacon The race of this war fell upon the lofs of Urbin whic Bm:m he reobtained . Jf. [race an Ra'cesorsE Horfe bred to run for prizes horje. 6 RACEMUFEROUS adf Lat.] Bearing clufters Ra‘cer. n. /. [from race. that contends in fpeed Runner; on " A poet's form fhe plac'd before their eyes And bad the nimbleft racer feize the prize Pope The quaRa'cinNEss. #. /. [from racy. lity of being racy Rack. n. /. [racke, Dutch.y from racken to ftretch. 1. An engine to torture Ve not his ghoft; O let him pafs hi That would Stretch'hi he hate upon the rack of this rough world out longer Shakefpeare's King Lear Did ever any man upon the rack affi& himfelf becaufe he had reccived a crofs anfwer from hi miftrefs Taylor Let them fecl the whip, the fword, the fire And in the tortures of the rack expire . Torture Addifon extreme pain A fit of the ftone puts a king to the rack, an makes him as miferable as it does the meancf fubjet Temple A cool behaviour fets bim on the rack, and i interpreted as an inftance of averfion or indiffer Add;on ence 3. Any inftrument by which extenfion i erformed Thefe bows, being fomewhat like the long bow i uf amongf us wer ben only by a man' immediate ftrength, without the help of any bende or rack that are ufed to others Wilkins 4. A diftaff; commonly a portable diftaff from which they fpin by twirling a ball It is commonly fpoken and written rock [ppacca the occiput Saxon racca Or hills, or feed them at full #acks within May's Virgil The beft way to feed cattle with it, is: to_put i in racks, becaufe of the great quantity they trea down Mortimer He bid the nimble hour Bring forth the fteeds; the nimble hoursobey From their full racks the gen'rous fteeds retire 9. Arrack ; a f{pirituous liquor ArRACK 70 Rack. @, 2. [from the noun. ftream as clouds before the wind Addifon Se T Their joints new fet to be new rack'd again. Cowvley Hold, O dreadful Sir an innocent old man Dryden and Lee to harafs Th' apoftate angel, though in pain Vaunting aloud, but rack'd with decp defpair. Mi/t 3. To harafs by exation The landlords there fhamefully rack their tenants exacting of them, befides his covenants, what h - pleafeth Spenfer ‘The commons haft thou rack'd; the clergy's bag Are lank and lean with thy extortions. Shakefpeare He took pofieflion of his juft eftate Nor rack'd his tenants with increafe of rent. Dryd 4. To fcrew; to force to performance 'and ftretchin feriptur furthe than by God was meant, are drawn into fundr inconveniencies Hocker The wifeft among the heathens racked their wits and caft about every way, managing every littl argument to the utmoftadvantage. Tillotfor's Serin It was worth the while for the adverfary to rac invention, and to call in all the fuccours of learnin and critical fkill to aflail them wreft them out of our hands w call racking whereby i much fooner Some roll their cafk abou with the lecs, and, after a fe r(lL'/\ i Rac Ofi' RENT . 4 il dbfif] B the cellar o iy if pofiible, and t Waterland 5. To ftretch ; to extend Nor have I money nor commodit To raife a prefent fum Try what my credit can in Venice do That fhall be rack'd even to the wttermoft. = Shak d 2. qdy [rac refc]t;emmt WL'M{ Rent raifed to the uttermof anq o Have poor families been ruiped b ra paid for the lands of the church ?& Sflzifi?%fi Rack-RENTER. 7./ [rack and r nter, One who pays the uttermoft ren Thoug this be a quarter of hi { yer] and the publick tax takés away onc)hu"'g,:;c?wt Ahis influences not the yearly rent of the l'and« which the rack-renter or undertenant pays, Lm, RA‘ckET M 7. /: [Of uncertain derivation | Cafaubon derives it, after his al tom, from ¢ayix, the dath of fuctuatoy againft the fhore. 1. Aan irregular clattering noife That the tennis court keeper know better tha I, it is a low ebb of linen with thee, when thy keepeft not racket there Shakefpeare confufe talk guage I burlefque Jan Ambitio the nex hat doo removed her lodging, and to faétion, where they keep fuc racket, that the whole parifh is difturbed and eier night in an uproar Safi 3. [Ragquette, French.] The inftrumen with which players at tennis ftrike th ball. Whence perhaps all the othe fenfes ‘When we have matcht our rackets to thefe ball ‘We will in France play a fet i Shall ftrike his father's crown into the hazard. i i Shakefpear can yield backward or it cannot: if it can yie backward, then the impreflion miade is a motion; JH5 ‘fee ftrok makes it fly from it Unhappy moft like tortured me They rackin whic as "w 7o Rack. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To torment by the rack To torment 1 .t'xs cr?nlm?n t({ d{l‘a:w wine or hegr from th The body, into which imprefiion is raade, eithe But fever'd in a pale clear-thining fky. Shakefpeare 2 detived in this fenfe; rein, t(g?,,,v;"‘ i clear, pure, whence oy k word to thlxs' 1s perhaps of the fame rage, i Three glorious funs, each one a perfect fun Not feparated with the racking clouds You will not rac 6. To defecate; to dray off from y lees. . I 1 know not- whence h ¢ z. Their bulls they fend to paftures far His frumbling founder'd jade can trot as hig As any other Pegafus can fly So the dull eel moves nimbler in the mud Than all the fwift-finn'd racers of the flood. Dorfer and the tide undriv'n laid 8. A wooden grate in which hay is place for cattle Latin. [racemus and fero and ar A nec lilandick, hinges or joints. of mutton cut for the table 7. A grate; the grate on which bacon i Addifon. A cock will in one day fertilitate the whol vacemation or clufter of eggs, which are not exclude Browan in many weeks after we call the rack Dryden talk on trifles, fpcak with the greateft fluency, is that the tongue is like a race-borfe, which run Racema'tion. n. J. [racemus Clufter, like that of grapes whic Stands without motion The reafon Hudibras gives, why thofe, who ca the fafter the lefs weight jt carries above Bacon not perceived below, pafs without noife As wint'ry winds contending in the fky With equal force of lungs their titles try They rage, they roar: the doubtful rack of heav' Milton fteep 3/)(1"::/])('111‘[,: '72‘)/:}:"/1 Leave not a rack behind courfe My race of glory run The fifters turn'the wheel wield Stan RA A wit a racker up a bi nl Dighy on the Sou He talks much of the motives ¢o do and fox: bear, how they determine a reafonable man, as i he were no more than a tennis-ball, to be toffed and fro by the rackets of the fecond caufes Bramball againf Hbbes Ra‘ckiNG n. f lc am a a m f th i r h o c p Racki onl it is a fwifter time and a fhorter tre:@ tha and though it does not rid fo much g"{'"{'d' Farrier'Di it is fomething eafier is a Ne The rackoo badger havin with a thic z. Ra‘ckoon an‘xmal, lik Englan \al cl; n be fo li a fai and dee furs it fleeps in t ehe time in a hollow tree, and goes out a-nights, wher the moon fhines, to feed on th it is hunted by dogs fea fide';il:j RA'CY. adj. [perhaps from raj% ?P‘: ti ta s o o a f n r S aroot. the foil i Rich racy verfes in whic w " fm t ta e co th i w o f l fo T i fee From his brain that Helicon c.lifnl, il. Denbam Whofe racy liquor did his offspring f gro i bu us ci lu ve i fir a e The cy Hufpandij more early it is more racys Mort:msr The bofpitable fage, in fig B e,l :.v ra th ' mi Of fociat welcome oh d‘ to re ca i o l m from th Lat gh br ro an d in re r ye lo By te Rap theold pret. of read. Sf;{'{' |
