noun company; herd; breed.
2. race ·vt to run a race with.
3. race ·noun a root.
4. race ·vt to raze.
5. race ·noun hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
6. race ·noun esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
7. race ·noun a progress; a course; a movement or progression.
8. race ·noun a variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
9. race ·vt to cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
10. race ·noun competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
11. race ·noun the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
12. race ·noun a channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, ·etc.
13. race ·vi to run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
14. race ·vi to run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
15. race ·noun the descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
xvi. race ·noun 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.
xvii. race ·noun 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.
xviii. race ·noun 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.