8. Grow, cause to grow, propagate, cultivate. 9. Make light or spongy (as bread). 10. Bring back to life, raise from the dead. 11. [Southern States of the U. S.] Rear, bring up. 12. Cause to arise, give rise to, originate, produce, cause, effect. 13. Give rise to, originate, occasion, start, set going. 14. Utter, strike up, give utterance to. 15. Excite, intensify, invigorate, heighten. Raise a siege. Abandon a siege, give up the attempt to take by siege.
Raisin, n. Dried grape.
Rake, n. Libertine, debauchee, man of pleasure roué.
Rake, v. a.
1. Gather, collect, draw together, heap together, gather together, scrape together, rake up, heap up,
scrape over. 2. Scour, search closely, ransack. 3. Enfilade. Rake, v. n.
1. Search, grope, scrape, scratch in order to find. 2. (Naut.) Incline from a perpendicular (as a mast). Rake up.
1. Gather together, scrape up. 2. Cover with ashes (as a fire).
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