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torment emotionally or mentally

a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"

framework for holding objects

rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

torture on the rack

fly in high wind

run before a gale

work on a rack; "rack leather"

stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"

go at a rack; "the horses single-footed"

put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"

torment emotionally or mentally

a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"

framework for holding objects

rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

torture on the rack

work on a rack, of materials such as leather

fly in high wind

run before a gale

Same as Arrack.

To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

A fast amble.

To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

An instrument for bending a bow.

A grate on which bacon is laid.

A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

A distaff.

A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

That which is extorted; exaction.

To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

A wreck; destruction.

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; - said of a horse.

An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; - formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; - called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

Same as Arrack.

To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

A fast amble.

To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

An instrument for bending a bow.

A grate on which bacon is laid.

A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

A distaff.

A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

That which is extorted; exaction.

To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

A wreck; destruction.

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; - said of a horse.

An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; - formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; - called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

A distaff.

An instrument for racking or extending: an engine for stretching the body in order to extort a confession: a framework on which articles are arranged: the grating above a manger for hay: (mech.) a straight bar with teeth to work with those of a wheel: (fig.) extreme pain, anxiety, or doubt.

To stretch forcibly: to strain: to stretch on the rack or wheel: to torture: to exhaust.

Thin or broken clouds, drifting across the sky.

To strain or draw off from the lees, as wine.

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

An instrument for stretching or extending anything; an engine of torture; torture; a frame in which articles are arranged; a grate on which bacon is laid; a wooden frame for the feeding of horses, &c.; the frame of the bones of an animal; a straight bar, with teeth to fit into those of a wheel.

Any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

Among the Tartars, a spirituous liquor made of mare's milk. See Arrack.

A racking-pace.

Wreck, which see.

To stretch or strain on the rack or wheel; to torture; to harass by exaction; to stretch; to wrest; to extend.

To draw off from the less; to defecate or decant.

To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.

To amble, as a horse.

An instrument for torturing the body by stretching or straining the limbs; formerly used to force a confession; intense physical or mental suffering; a framework on or in which articles are hung or arranged; a straight bar having teeth which work with the teeth of a pinion or cogwheel; thin, broken, vapory clouds; wreck; used only in rack and ruin; a pacing gait of a horse.

To stretch or strain on an instrument of torture; torture; torment; as, racked by remorse; strain; tear; as, racked by a cough; tax greatly; as, to rack one's brain.

To go at a pacing gait, as a horse.

An engine of torture; frame work on which things are laid; grating to hold hay; toothed bar; flying clouds.

To strain; torture; draw off, as liquor.

To torture; pain; stretch; tear; strain.

To draw off from the lees, as liquors.

To move, as a horse, with the gait called rack.

A machine for stretching or straining; an instrument of torture by which the limbs were stretched or strained.

An open grating or frame work.

A bar having teeth that engage with those of a gear - wheel.

A quadruped's motion resembling the pace, two feet on a side being moved at once.

Thin, flying clouds; any floating vapor.

Same as WRACK; obsolete except in the pharse "to go to rack and ruin.".

To decant or strain, as wines; to draw wines off the lees.

To strain; to stretch; to torture by stretching; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

An instrument for stretching; an engine of torture; extreme pain; anguish.

The neck or spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

A receptacle for hay for feeding horses, &c., formed of a range of upright bars; a frame on which articles may be placed or spread out, as a plate-rack; the frame from which the yarn or thread is drawn in spinning; in mining, an inclined plane on which the ore is washed and separated from the slime or earth; a flat bar with teeth on one side to work into those of a pinion.

The drift of the sky; thin, flying, broken clouds-not to be confounded with reek, a mist or vapour.

n. [Dutch, German, Anglo-Saxon] An instrument for racking, stretching, or extending any thing, as an engine of torture, on which the body of a person is gradually stretched until sometimes the joints are dislocated ;- hence, torture ; extreme pair ; - a wooden frame of open work in which hay is laid for horses and cattle ; -a framework on which earthenware, bottles, or other articles are arranged and deposited ; - in ships, a strong frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which passes the running rigging ;-in the manege, a peculiar pace of a horse in which the two legs on each side are moved together ;-in mechanics, a straight bar with teeth on its edge to work with those of a wheel or pinion which is to drive or follow it ; -[Anglo-Saxon hracca, the neck] The neck of mutton or collar of veal.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.