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Wrack (?), n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
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Wrack, v. t. To rack; to torment. [R.]
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Wrack, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See Wreck.]
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1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. “A world devote to universal wrack.” Milton.
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2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
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3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
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Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass.
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Wrack, v. t. To wreck. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Wreck, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.]
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1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
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Hard and obstinate
As is a rock amidst the raging floods,
'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. Spenser.
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2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, “the wreck of a railroad train”.
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The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. Addison.
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Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. J. R. Green.
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3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, “they burned the wreck”.
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4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
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To the fair haven of my native home,
The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. Cowper.
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5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Bouvier.
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