- 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).