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Raw   /rɑ/   Listen
adjective
Raw  adj.  (compar. rawer; superl. rawest)  
1.
Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, Not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
2.
Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. "Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude."
3.
Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought. Specifically:
(a)
Not distilled; as, raw water. (Obs.)
(b)
Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.
(c)
Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.
(d)
Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.
(e)
Not tanned; as, raw hides.
(f)
Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
4.
Not covered; bare. Specifically:
(a)
Bald. (Obs.) "With skull all raw."
(b)
Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
(c)
Sore, as if by being galled. "And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment."
5.
Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. "A raw and gusty day."
Raw material, material that has not been subjected to a (specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry.
Raw pig, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.


noun
Raw  n.  A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw. "Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw."





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"Raw" Quotes from Famous Books



... was, not to net, but to lasso the bear; and for that purpose he had provided four powerful ropes made of strips of raw, undressed buffalo hide, plaited, with a running ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... the rack. He walked into the house and brought out his roll of blankets that he never took with him except on long rides, and his "slicker," and his longest stake-rope of plaited raw-hide. These he began to tie deliberately upon his saddle. Santa, ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... safely. If social structure were rational its free expression would be so too. Many observers, with no particular philosophy to adduce, feel that the arts among us are somehow impotent, and they look for a better inspiration, now to ancient models, now to the raw phenomena of life. A dilettante may, indeed, summon inspiration whence he will; and a virtuoso will never lack some material to keep him busy; but if what is hoped for is a genuine, native, inevitable art, a great revolution would first have to be worked ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... governor will have me strangled, and they will take me to my grave with ropes of raw hide and there will not any where be a sad heart for ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... by Mr. Cunningham to be one of those who waded into the water to receive the presents from him the preceding evening: he was very inquisitive about our clothes, and expressed the greatest astonishment at everything he noticed about us. He ridiculed our repugnance to partake of a piece of the raw gut of a turtle which he offered to us, and to expose our folly, ate a piece, which he appeared to think a dainty, although it was quite fetid from putrefaction. Our attempts to collect a vocabulary of their language were quite unsuccessful. ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King


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