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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The March of Portola • Zoeth S. Eldredge

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— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... class. Mr Tate did not break it but dug with his hand between his thighs while his heavily starched linen creaked about his neck and wrists. Stephen did not look up. It was a raw spring morning and his eyes were still smarting and weak. He was conscious of failure and of detection, of the squalor of his own mind and home, and felt against his neck the raw edge of his turned ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... if loose-knit organization of fleet-clans. Each of these had control over certain islands which served them as "fairings," ports for refitting and anchorage between voyages, usually ruggedly wooded where the sea people could find the raw material for their ships. Colonies of clans took to the sea, not in the slim, swift cruisers like the ship Ross was now on, but in larger, deeper vessels providing living quarters and warehouses afloat. They lived by trade and raiding, spending only a portion of the year ashore to ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... brought the poor naked lady to her wigwam, quieted her, found some raw deerskins, and showed her how to cover herself ...

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