raccahout

[French racahout, from Arab, rágaut.] A starch or meal prepared from the edible acorn of the Barbary Oak, Quercus ballot a, sometimes recommended as food for invalids. "There was once a talk of rabbling him the fifth of Mixed with sugar and aromatics, it is used by the IMG:content-0145.png:[blocks in formation] Arabs as a substitute for chocolate. An imitation of it is made of potato starch, chocolate, and aromatics. rạc-coôn', ra-coôn', 8. [North Amer. Indian arrathkune, arathcone Procyon lot or: Fr. rat on laveur; Ger. waschbär , from its habit of dipping its food in water. According to Skeat a corrupt. of Fr. rat on , dim in. from rat =arat.] Zoology: