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Definition of Raisin

1. Noun. Dried grape.

Definition of Raisin

1. n. A grape, or a bunch of grapes.

Definition of Raisin

1. Noun. A dried grape. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Raisin

1. a dried grape [n -S] : RAISINY [adj]

Medical Definition of Raisin

1. 1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree, the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Origin: F. Raisin grape, raisin, L. Racemus cluster of grapes or berries; cf. Gr, berry, grape. Cf. Raceme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raisin

Literary usage of Raisin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1901)
"We have before us in the raisin-Growers' Association, as Mr. White has very well said, a menace to our institution, and the only one I know of among the ..."

2. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"raisin Bread MADE WITH SUN-MAID raisinS Is Sold by your Baker or Grocer f he hain't it send m ... CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATED raisin CO. 915 Madison St., Fresno, ..."

3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"raisin wine would b3 extremely good, if made rich of the fruit, ... raisin Wine with Cider. Put two hundred weight of Malaga raisins into a cask, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"... to be highly efficient, and has, in some respects, advantages over the ether spray. Dr. raisin makes no allusion to this use of ethyl bromide. MEDICINE. ..."

5. Reynard the Fox in South Africa: Or, Hottentot Fables and Tales by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1864)
"THE raisin-EATER. (The original, in the Hottentot language, ... a valley in which the raisin-tree was ripe, and he was there attacked by a severe illness. ..."

6. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States by John Brannan (1823)
"We found the detachment under lieutenant colonel Lewis encamped in the gardens on the north side of the river raisin at French Town ; not in any regular ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"raisin, the commercial name for the dried or cured grape. ... The raisin crop comes from the great San Joaquin Valley and from several counties in southern ..."

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