GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 5 definitions

1.       
   Wrack , n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
   1913 Webster
         
       

2.       
   Wrack, v. t. To rack; to torment.  [R.]
   1913 Webster
         
       

3.       
   Wrack, n. [OE. wrak wreck.  See Wreck.]
   1913 Webster
   Wreck; ruin; destruction.  [Obs.] Chaucer.  “A world devote to universal wrack.” 
   Milton.
   
   1913 Webster
   
   1913 Webster
   Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
   1913 Webster
   (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
   1913 Webster
   Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass.
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

4.       
   Wrack, v. t. To wreck.  [Obs.]
   Dryden.
   
   1913 Webster
         
       

5.       
   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.]
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   
   1913 Webster
   Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
   1913 Webster
   The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
   Addison.
   
   1913 Webster
   Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
   J. R. Green.
   
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
   1913 Webster
   To the fair haven of my native home,
   The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
   Cowper.
   
   1913 Webster
   (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
   Bouvier.
   
   1913 Webster