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  • noun Plural form of rach.

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Examples

  • Vitamin deficiency is common and causes anemia, beriberi, pellagra and scurvy which may lead to diarrhea, skin raches, edema and heart failure.

    Global Warming - According to Scientists not Debate but Fact 2008

  • Ye poor prayer-dhrivlin 'haythen, wid yer limon av a hear-rt ye've got a yallar shtripe that raches to th' length an 'width av ye.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • She led three greyhounds in a leash, and three raches, or hounds of scent, followed her closely.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • These and other experiments, carried out with a severity perfectly obvious to the instructed scientific reader, and accompanied by a logic equally severe, restored the conviction that, even in these lower raches of the scale of being, life does not appear without the operation of antecedent life.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • A family has established itself among the rocks, to pick up a penny by making boxes of larch, and singing the different ranz des raches.

    A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

  • She led three greyhounds in a leash, and three raches, or hounds of scent, followed her closely.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

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