Raisin
['reɪz(ə)n] or ['rezn]
Definition
(n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
(n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dried grape.
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Definition
n. a dried ripe grape.—Raisin wine wine made from dried grapes.
Editor: Ozzie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating raisins, implies that discouragements will darken your hopes when they seem about to be realized.
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Examples
- I've got a good place for raisin', and I thought of takin' in a little more stock, said the man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Very true, but then there's the bother and expense of raisin'. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then we'll go and eat up all the raisins. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No more raisins, Demi. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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