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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. In the first See also:case the word is an See also:adaptation of O.Nor. rds, a cognate See also:form in O.E. being raes, See also:rush, onset; while the O.E. descendant reese was frequently used in See also:medieval See also:poetry. 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 See also: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. The second word, an ethnical or See also:national stock, comes from Fr. rase, adapted from Ital. razzo, cf. Span. raza. It has been referred to an O.H.G. reiza, See also:line, See also:mark, cognate with Eng. " write," i.e. the line marking descent.

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