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RACE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 774 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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