"Race" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

A tribe, people, or nation, be-longing or supposed to belong to the same stock or llneage. “Race, color, or.previous conditlon of servitude.” Const U. S., Am. XV

To raze.

To run a race with.

A root.

Company; herd; breed.

Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a
contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating,
rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the
running of horses; as, he attended the races.

A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated
by seed.

The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel
in which it flows; a mill race.

Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that
quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as
in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe,
people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a
lineage; a breed.

A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and
forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw,
when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;
hence, career; course of life.

To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as,
to race horses.

Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals
raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage
for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced
by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of
Alderney.

Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.