n. A rush; running; swift course.n. A course which has to be run, passed over, or gone through; onward movement or progression; career.n. 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.n. Course, as of events; progress.n. Struggle; conflict; tumult; trouble.n. Course; line of onward movement; way; route.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.n. 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.n. A canal or watercourse from a dam to a water-wheel: specifically called the head-race.n. The watercourse which leads away the water after it leaves the wheel: specifically called the tail-race.n. A genealogical line or stock; a class of persons allied by descent from a common ancestry; lineage; family; kindred: as, the Levites were a race of priests; to be of royal or of ignoble race.n. An ethnical stock; a great division of mankind having in common certain distinguishing physical peculiarities, and thus a comprehensive class appearing to be derived from a distinct primitive source: as, the Caucasian race; the Mongolian race; the Negro race. See man, 1.n. A tribal or national stock; a division or subdivision of one of the great racial stocks of mankind, distinguished by minor peculiarities: as, the Celtic race; the Finnic race is a branch of the Mongolian; the English, French, and Spaniards are mixed races.n. The human family; human beings as a class; mankind: a shortened form of human race: as, the future prospects of the race; the elevation of the race.n. A breed, stock, or strain of domesticated animals or cultivated plants; an artificially propagated and perpetuated variety.n. Specifically— In zoöl,. a geographical variety; a subspecies, characteristic of a given faunal area, intergrading with another form of the same species.n. In botany:n. A variety so fixed as to reproduce itself with considerable certainty by seed. Races may be of spontaneous origin or the result of artificial selection.n. In a broader use, any variety, subspecies, species, or group of very similar species whose characters are continued through successive generations.n. Any fixed class of beings more or less broadly differentiated from all others; any general aggregate of mankind or of animals considered as a class apart; a perpetuated or continuing line of like existences: as, the human race; the race of statesmen; the equine or the feline race.n. A line or series; a course or succession: used of things.n. A strong peculiarity by which the origin or species of anything may be recognized, as, especially, the flavor of wine.n. Intrinsic character; natural quality or disposition; hence, spirit; vigor; pith; raciness.n. Synonyms Tribe, Clan, etc. See people.Of or pertaining to a race.n. A root. See race-ginger, and hand, 13 .To tear up; snatch away hastily.An obsolete form of rase, raze.n. A calcareous concretion in brick-earth.In heraldry, same as indented.n. The circnlar path traversed by a horse in driving a machine by a horse-whim; a gin-ring or gin-race.n. 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.n. A narrow passage, fenced with hurdles, for sheep; a lane.n. n. The heart, liver, and lungs or lights of an animal, especially of a calf: same as pluck, 4.n. Same as rase.n. A white splash or mark on the face of a horse or dog; a blaze.