raisin

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"For a man is helpless and vain, of a condition so exposed to calamity that a raisin is able to kill him; any trooper out of the

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  1. noun A sweet grape dried either in the sun or by artificial means.
  2. noun A deep brownish purple.

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  • You were red and wrinkled as a raisin, and much smaller than your sister had been, but you howled hungrily because you were alive and wanted to live. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • A blob the size of a raisin was heaving on his chest. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • Where I bought: bagels (plain, everything, raisin, and mini strawberry), bread (100\% whole wheat, makes me feel better when they slather Fluff on it), —  Notes from the Trenches
  • I called attention to the fact that the raisin is rich in food iron and a good source for this food mineral and suggested that if the people were made acquainted with this fact through a broad advertising campaign, the demand for this delectable fruit might be greatly increased. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934
  • I dunno what I'd hev done 'thout him," she added, "'long o' raisin' the young tur-r-keys, an' goslin's, an' deedies, an' sech; he hev been a mighty holp ter me. —  The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, grape, from Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus, bunch of grapes.

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  1. from Middle English raisin, reisin, reysyn, reysone, reysynge, a cluster of grapes, also a dried grape, raisin, = Dutch razijn, rozijn = Middle Low German rosīn = Middle High German rasin, rosine, German rosine = Danish rosin = Swedish russin (Middle Latin rosina), raisin; from Old French raisin, reisin, a cluster of grapes, a grape, a dried grape (raisins de cabas, dried grapes, raisins), French raisin, dial. rasin, roisin, rosin, grapes (un grain de raisin, a grape; raisins de caisse, raisins), = Provencal razim, rozim, razain = Catalan rahim = Spanish racimo = Portuguese racimo = Italian racemo (diminutive racimolo), a cluster of grapes, from Latin racemus, a cluster of grapes: see raceme, a doublet of raisin.
 

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