Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rasp .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The raspberry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
raspberry .
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Examples
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He says, however: 'The flowers of this raspis being tempered with honey, are good to be laid to watery or bloodshotten eyes, as also in erysipelas; being taken inwardly, and drunk with water, it is a comfortable medicine to a weak stomach.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836
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But we must now proceed to examine and record the structure of the raspberry, raspis, or hindberry, by all which names it is called.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836
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Also the like plentie of raspis berries, which doe grow in euery place.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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