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i. [RACK (7), s.] Manège: To go at a racking pace; to amble quickly. "He did not so much as rack."-Fuller: Worthies, ii. 173. răck (4), v. t. [O. Fr. raqué , vin raqué =small or coarse wine squeezed from the dregs of the grapes, already drained of their best moisture ( Cotgrave ).] To draw off from the lees; to draw off, as pure liquor, from its sediment. Switzerland 120,000 persons ascended the Rigi line during the season of 1898, while upwards of 50,000 pa ed over that on Mount Pilatus. The highest "Some roll their cask about the cellar to mix it with rack-railway in the world is that on Pike's Peak in the lees, and, after a few days' resettlement, rack it off." Colorado. The total mileage of all the rack-rail-- Mortimer : Husbandry . ways in the world was estimated in 1898 to be 1,500 miles.