<noun.state> in the raw in the altogether in his birthday suit [ adj ]
not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
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(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
<adj.all> natural yogurt natural produce raw wool raw sugar bales of rude cotton
having the surface exposed and painful
<adj.all> a raw wound
not processed or refined
<adj.all> raw sewage
devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
<adj.all> naked ambition raw fury you may kill someone someday with your raw power
brutally unfair or harsh
<adj.all> received raw treatment from his friends a raw deal
not processed or subjected to analysis
<adj.all> raw data the raw cost of production only the crude vital statistics
untempered and unrefined
<adj.all> raw talent raw beauty
hurting
<adj.all> the tender spot on his jaw
unpleasantly cold and damp
<adj.all> bleak winds of the North Atlantic
used of wood and furniture
<adj.all> raw wood
lacking training or experience
<adj.all> the new men were eager to fight raw recruits
(used informally) completely unclothed
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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: (a) Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] --Bacon. (b) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton. (c) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits. (d) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow. (e) Not tanned; as, raw hides. (f) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
4. Not covered; bare. Specifically: (a) Bald. [Obs.] ``With skull all raw.'' --Spenser (b) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore. (c) 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.
Raw \Raw\, n. A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw. --De Quincey.
The proposal is also likely to run into opposition from another group of creditors whose raw material contracts were voided by LTV after its bankruptcy-law filing.
Prices farmers got for raw products at mid-March were unchanged from February and up 7.4 percent from a year earlier.
The company _ on Beard Street _ cleans and processes raw horsehair for use in brooms and brushes.
He also is under fire for the blockade of oil, raw materials and other goods he imposed on Lithuania to force the Baltic republic to back off its March 11 declaration of independence.
It has also prevented many Russian businesses from buying badly needed raw materials and equipment from the West.
He said costs directly related to raw materials and production won't be subject to the cutbacks, but that all of the company's products and business units will be reviewed.
Hydro said the effect of the decline was partly offset by lower raw materials prices and higher smelter productivity.
Industrial pollution has destroyed large tracts of fertile land. There are chronic shortages of agricultural feed and raw materials for industry.
By importing mainly raw timber, they say, Japan is protecting its own uncompetitive, traditional timber processing industry.
Toyota's goal is for a piece of raw steel to come in one end of Mr. Khan's building and go out the other side the same day as a finished bumper.
Peru is the chief producer of coca leaf, the raw material of cocaine.
The Communist-run municipal governments, in turn, allowed the party apparatus to run local affairs, including commerce, allocation of scarce raw materials and distribution of a wide range of privileges.
It controls products from start to finish, buying raw cotton from farmers it knows, spinning yarn, dyeing it and sewing it into athletic wear.
Many astronaut crews over several years would be required to construct an Antarctic-type facility, using raw building materials already there.
Most eat things like romaine lettuce and bananas, but the large milkweed bug prefers sunflower seeds and raw peanuts.
Much of the raw manpower consists of basij, or lightly trained volunteers.
But they agreed that Fox had some big problems - most obviously in the raw sugar and agricultural contracts.
The systems are designed to boost productivity while reducing consumption of raw materials and energy.
A sharp drop in the value of Yugoslavia's currency, the dinar, which lost about 200 percent against Western currencies in a year, has driven up the cost of imports of many medicines, raw materials for their production and medical equipment.
Most cholesterol is made by the liver from raw materials supplied by fat from the diet.
Under Soviet occupation, many Latvian factories were designed to rely exclusively on raw materials supplied from Russian sources.
Bank of Japan officials said the month-to-month rise resulted from the yen's downturn in June and rebounding raw material and commodity prices in overseas markets.
In Jewell's two-step system, raw sewage is partially cleaned in a tankful of bacteria, then piped into long, low troughs in a greenhouse, where it provides a "nutrient film" on which plants thrive.
Oil, raw oil, gas, natural gas, and diesel fuel are among the products covered by the rules.
Then comes a hearty meal of raw fish, limes and breadfruit.
"The market hasn't fully digested" the increase in costs, he said, including higher exploration costs, environmental expenses and the cost of some raw materials used in gold leaching.
The government said that retail sales rose 0.5% in August from July and that prices of finished goods rose 0.3% in August while prices of raw materials rose 0.5%.
When the chairman of Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. flew into town a few months ago in the corporate jet, a small group of trainmen here knew they had struck a raw nerve.
Mr. Harkin already has scapegoats to explain his failure to catch fire: He blames the press for giving him "a raw deal" by misrepresenting him as a big government spender or ignoring him entirely.
Recognition of a rising price trend for wool is obvious among those trading near to the raw wool end of the trade, but manufacturers and retailers are proving more difficult to convince that high prices must now be paid.