Definition of rack

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Rack (a.) 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..

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Hornwrack :: Hornwrack (n.) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
Grackle :: Grackle (n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow..
Headlight :: Headlight (n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel..
Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..
Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something..
Tracking :: tracking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trac.
Up-line :: Up-line (n.) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.
Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..
Rack-rent :: Rack-rent (v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant..
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
Piste :: Piste (n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person..
Crepitation :: Crepitation (n.) The act of crepitating or crackling.
Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another..
Seam :: Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
Siding :: Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout..
Track :: Track (n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc..
Parathesis :: Parathesis (n.) The matter contained within brackets.
Bracketing :: Bracketing (n.) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively..
Half-cracked :: Half-cracked (a.) Half-demented; half-witted.
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