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RACE , an homonymous word of which the See also: principal meanings are (1) a trial or contest of See also: speed; (2) a tribe, breed, a See also: group of individuals descended from a See also: common ancestor
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In the first See also: case the word is an adaptation of O.Nor. rds, a cognate See also: form in O.E. being raes, rush, onset; while the O.E. descendant reese was frequently used in See also: medieval See also: poetry
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The particular use of the word for a See also: swift current of See also: water See also: running through a narrow channel, e.g. the Race of See also: Alderney, and for the water conducted in an artificial channel to a point where its power is to be used, as in " See also: mill-race," may be due to the O.Fr. raz or raze, probably of
See also: Breton origin
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The second word, an ethnical or See also: national stock, comes from Fr. rase, adapted from Ital. razzo, cf
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Span. raza
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It has been referred to an O.H.G. reiza, See also: line, mark, cognate with Eng
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" write," i.e. the line marking descent
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