Many recent writers classify the Malay and American races as branches of the Mongolian. See Illustration
in Appendix.
2. Company; herd; breed.
For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
Fetching mad bounds.
Shak. 3. (Bot.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
4. Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates
origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack. "A race of heaven." Shak.
Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
Massinger. 5. Hence, characteristic quality or disposition. [Obs.]
And now I give my sensual race the rein.
Shak.
Some . . . great race of fancy or judgment.
Sir W. Temple. Syn. — Lineage; line; family; house; breed; offspring; progeny; issue.
Race
(Race), n. [OE. ras, res, rees, AS. r&aemacrs a rush, running; akin to Icel. ras course, race.
&radic118.]
1. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
2. Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
Bacon. 3. Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running,
riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as,
he attended the races.
The race is not to the swift.
Eccl. ix. 11.
I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race.
Pope. 4. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
My race of glory run, and race of shame.
Milton. 5. 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 Portland Race; the Race of
Alderney.
6. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
The part of the channel above the wheel is sometimes called the headrace, the part below, the tailrace.
7. (Mach.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing
machine, etc.
Race cloth, a cloth worn by horses in racing, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed. — Race
course. (a) The path, generally circular or elliptical, over which a race is run. (b) Same as Race
