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Rawest

Raw \Raw\ (r[add]), a. [Compar. Rawer (r[add]"[~e]r); superl. Rawest.] [AS. hre['a]w; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. r[=o], Icel. hr[=a]r, Dan. raa, Sw. r[*a], L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. [root]18. Cf. Crude, Cruel.]

  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.
    --De Quincey.

  3. Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought. Specifically:

    1. Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.]
      --Bacon.

    2. Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

    3. Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.

    4. Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.

    5. Not tanned; as, raw hides.

    6. Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

  4. Not covered; bare. Specifically:

    1. Bald. [Obs.] ``With skull all raw.''
      --Spenser

    2. Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

    3. Sore, as if by being galled.

      And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment.
      --Spenser.

  5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. ``A raw and gusty day.''
    --Shak.

    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.

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rawest

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Usage examples of "rawest".

The dried meat was packed in hides and other than the few arms among them they were innocent of civilized device as the rawest savage of that land.

It was ingrained in them all, from the rawest recruit to the most senior non-com: hypnotically drilled into their brains.

He had started this whole mission badly, having made a number of silly mistakes that even the rawest recruit would have avoided.

An overbearing man, she added, who thought he could order her around as if she were the rawest of recruits.

From the Lictor General down to the rawest first-year recruit, the lictors had no planetary loyalties and ground no partisan axes.

He succeeded in scrounging that Scripture-knowledge trophy over the heads of better men by means of some of the rawest and most brazen swindling methods ever witnessed even at a school where such things were common.