The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . [Colloq.] 1 have been racketiwj lately, having dined twice withRogers and once with Cnint. Macniitay, In Trevelyan, I. 302. II. ;. To utter noisily or tiimultuoiisly;clamor out. [Hare.] Then tliiiik, then speak, then drink their sound racket nuiml anout this bodys courtThese two sweet words, Tis safe. U. Junmn. Case is Altered, iv. 4. racket- (raket), II. [.Vlso racquet, roquet: <ME. rakct = D. raket = JfLtr. ra(iiict = Ci. rocket,rnket
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . [Colloq.] 1 have been racketiwj lately, having dined twice withRogers and once with Cnint. Macniitay, In Trevelyan, I. 302. II. ;. To utter noisily or tiimultuoiisly;clamor out. [Hare.] Then tliiiik, then speak, then drink their sound racket nuiml anout this bodys courtThese two sweet words, Tis safe. U. Junmn. Case is Altered, iv. 4. racket- (raket), II. [.Vlso racquet, roquet: <ME. rakct = D. raket = JfLtr. ra(iiict = Ci. rocket,rnket, rakett = Dan. Sw. raket, < OP. assibi-lafed raehete. racliette. ronquete, , aracket, battledore, also the palm of the hand,K. roquetic, a racket, battledore, < Sp. raqiieta= It. racclietto. also laeclietto. a racket, baftle-doie (cf. AfL. raelia). < At. roliot. palm of thehand, pi. rdli. the palms; cf. poliii^. 7. the gameso ciilled, tennis.] 1. The instrument withwhich players at tennis and like games strikethe ball; a bat consisting usually of a thin stripof wood bent into a somewliat elliptical hoop, racket. 4930 racy [< racked + -.(/I.] rack-stick (rakstik), h. A stick suitably pre- rackety (raket-i),Making or characterized by a racket or noise;noisy: as, a i«rfe?,v company or place. [Oolloq.]This strange metamorphosis in tlie racketlti little Irish-man. KingsUy, Two Years .-Vgo, vii. {Davics.)In the rackety bowling-alley. C. F. Wooh-on, Anne, p. 193. rack-fisllt(rakfish), ii. [Origin unknown; for *wiiickfish or for rocljisli, q. v.] Afish, of wliat kind is not determined. .S. Clarke,Four Plantations in America (1670), p. 5. rack-hook (rakhiik), ». In a repeating clock,a part of the striking-mechanism which en-gages the teeth of the rack in succession when pared for stretching or straining a rope or thelike, as in fastening a load on a wagon Rack-stick and lastung, u piece of two-inch rope, ahont tifeet Ion},, fnstenetl to :i picket abo
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