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Ginger in the root, or not pul IMG:content-0147.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] "He that would win the race must guide his horse Obedient to the customs of the course." Cowper : Truth , 14. races; as, Are you going to the races ? (3) Speed attained in running. IMG:content-0148.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Hydraul. Eng.: The canal or course by which water is conducted to a water-wheel from the mill pond or stream above, and is conveyed away after having done its work. The water reaches the wheel by the head-race, and leaves it by the tail-race. "Here in the bright gravelly races the fish in couples turn up furrows in the stream-bed."-London Daily Tele graph . 2. Weaving: Alay-race (q. v.). IMG:content-0149.png:[blocks in formation] ra-çē-mic, a. [Fr. racémique, from racème =a rack II. Zool.: Ophibolus getulus , an American snake, black in color, and with a slender body. So called because it glides very quickly. *rach, *rache, *racche, *ratche, s. [Icel. rakki ; O. Sw. rach a =a bitch. A dog which hunted by scent, as distinguished from a greyhound. [BRACH.] "They hunt about as doth a rache ." Old Poem , in Ashmole's The at . Chem ., р. 155. rā-chi-al-gi-ą, s. [Eng., ., rachis , and Gr. algos =pain.] Pathol .: Pains of the bowels, supposed to arise from the nerves of the spinal marrow. ( Parr .) ra-chid-i-an, adj . [Gr. rhachis the spine or IMG:content-0150.jpg:[graphic] backbone.] 1. Pertaining to the spine; vertebral. 2. Pertaining to the rachis of an odontophore. "The rachidian teeth sometimes form a single series." -Woodward : Mollusca (ed. 3d), p. 21. ra-chil-lạ, s. (q. v.).] [Mod. Lat., dim in. from rachis Bot.: The zigzag rachis or axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of gra es.