n. [ Cf. F. embrassement. ]
Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
A ready embracement of . . . his kindness. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin. ] (Bot.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. [ 1913 Webster ]
Compound raceme,
a. (Bot.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes. [ 1913 Webster ]