To run swiftly; run in, or as if engaged in, a contest of speed.
To run with uncontrolled speed; go or revolve wildly or with improper acceleration: said of a steam-engine, a wheel, a ship's screw, or the like, when resistance is diminished without corresponding diminution of power.
To practise horse-racing as an occupation; be engaged in the business of running horses.
To cause to run or move swiftly, push or drive onward in, or as if in, a trial of speed: as, to race a horse; to race steamers.
To run, or cause horses, etc., to run, in competition with; contend against in a race.
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A rush; running; swift course.
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A course which has to be run, passed over, or gone through; onward movement or progression; career.
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A contest of speed; a competitive trial of speed, especially in running, but also in riding, driving, sailing, rowing, walking, or any mode of progression.
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Course, as of events; progress.
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Struggle; conflict; tumult; trouble.
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Course; line of onward movement; way; route.
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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 Race of Alderney; Portland Race.
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A canal or watercourse from a dam to a water-wheel: specifically called the head-race.
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The watercourse which leads away the water after it leaves the wheel: specifically called the tail-race.
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A root. See race-ginger, and hand, 13 .
To tear up; snatch away hastily.
An obsolete form of rase, raze.
In heraldry, same as indented.
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A calcareous concretion in brick-earth.
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The heart, liver, and lungs or lights of an animal, especially of a calf: same as pluck, 4.
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The circnlar path traversed by a horse in driving a machine by a horse-whim; a gin-ring or gin-race.
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In mech., an annular ring or groove in which the rollers of a roller-bearing, or the balls of a ball-bearing, travel; a ball-race; a roller-race. For a roller-bearing, the race is usually the frustum of a very flat cone, the rollers being frusta of the complementary cone.
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A narrow passage, fenced with hurdles, for sheep; a lane.