racel (ras)

[Early mod. E. also rase; 4926 while the 'midship section has practically no support from the water; and, again, her bows will be almost out of water and her screw racing. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 144. 3. To practise horse-racing as an occupation; be engaged in the busine of running horses. II. trans. 1. 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.2. To run, or cause horses, etc., to run, in competition with; contend against in a race. Swore, boxed, fought cocks, and raced their neighbor's Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 176. horses. Whenne the i were war of Moises, Thei fleyze away al in a res. IMG:content-1534.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A contest of speed; a competitive trial of speed, especially in running, but also in riding, driving, sailing, rowing, walking, or any mode of progre ion. The plural, used absolutely, commonly means a series of horse-races run at a set time over a regular course as, to go to the races; the Epsom races. To the bischope in a ras he ran. Old Eng. Metr. Homilies, 1. 141. Part on the plain, or in the air sublime, Upon the wing or in swift race contend, As at the Olympian games. Milton, P. L., ii. 529. The races were then called bell courses, because. the prize was a silver bell. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 107. 4t. Course, as of events; progre . The prosecution and race of the war carrieth the defendant to a ail and invade the ancient and in dubitate patrimony of the first aggre or. Bacon , War with Spain. 5†. Struggle; conflict; tumult; trouble. Othes hue him sworen in stude ther he wes, To buen him hold ant trewe for alles cunnes res . This evening the Talbot weighed and went back to the Cowes, because her anchor would not hold here, the tide set with so strong a race . Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 4. Near the sides of channels and near the mouths of bays the changes of the currents are very complex; and near the headlands separating two bays there is usually at certain times a very swift current, termed a race . Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 353. (a) A canal or watercourse from a dam to a water-wheel: specifically called the head -race. (b) The watercourse which leads away the water after it leaves the wheel: specifically called the tail - race.