raw \raw\ radd, a. compar. rawer radd"~er; superl.
   rawest. as. hre'aw; akin to d. raauw, lg. rau, g. roh,
   ohg. r=o, icel. hr=ar, dan. raa, sw. ra, l. crudus,
   gr. kre`as flesh, skr. kravis raw flesh. root18. 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.
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   2. hence: unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;
      unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw
      soldiers; a raw recruit.
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            approved himself to the raw judgment of the
            multitude.                            --de quincey.
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   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.
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   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.
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                and all his sinews waxen weak and raw
                through long imprisonment.        --spenser.
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   5. disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
      "a raw and gusty day." --shak.
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   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.
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see also:
rawer rawest crude cruel raw material raw pig 

raw \raw\, n.
   a raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch
   one on the raw.
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         like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is
         a raw.                                   --de quincey.
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raw
     adj 1: used especially of commodities in the natural unprocessed
            condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw
            wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" syn: natural,
             rawa, rudea
     2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
     3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating ant: cooked
     4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
     5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and
        pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone
        someday with your raw power" syn: naked
     6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his
        friends"; "a raw deal"
     7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
        cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
        syn: crude
     8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
     9: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the north
        atlantic" syn: bleak, cutting
     10: inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore
         throat" syn: sore
     11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" syn: rawa, unsanded
     12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
         fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears
         when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" syn: new,
          wet behind the earsp
     13: used informally completely unclothed syn: bare-assed, bare-ass,
          in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled,
          naked as a jaybird, stark naked
     n : informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
         altogether"; "in his birthday suit" syn: altogether, birthday
         suit
see also:
natural rawa rudea cooked naked crude 
bleak cutting sore unsanded new 
wet behind the earsp bare-assed bare-ass in the altogether in the buff 
in the raw peeled naked as a jaybird stark naked altogether 
birthday suit 

282 moby thesaurus words for "raw":
   rabelaisian, siberian, a novice at, a stranger to, abusive,
   adolescent, algetic, algid, angry, arctic, at half cock, awkward,
   bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, below zero, birthday suit, biting,
   bitter, bitterly cold, blankminded, blasphemous, bleak, blinding,
   blown, boreal, brisk, broad, brumal, budding, burning, callow,
   calumniatory, calumnious, chafed, coarse, cold, cold as charity,
   cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, comminatory,
   contumelious, crass, crisp, crude, cursing, cutting, damnatory,
   decollete, denunciatory, dewy, dirty, dumb, dysphemistic, earthy,
   ecdysiast, empty, empty-headed, epithetic, ever-new, evergreen,
   excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, exposed,
   exposed nerve, festering, fiery, firsthand, flaring, flashy,
   flaunting, fledgling, foul, frank, freezing, freezing cold, fresh,
   frigid, fulminatory, galled, garish, gauche, gaudy, gelid, glacial,
   glaring, green, green as grass, groping, gross, growing, gutter,
   gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, half-baked, half-cocked,
   half-grown, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
   icelike, icy, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, imprecatory,
   impubic, impure, in native buff, in puris naturalibus,
   in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, inclement,
   inexperienced, inflamed, ingenuous, innocent, intact, irritated,
   juicy, juvenile, keen, know-nothing, loud, low, lurid, maiden,
   maidenly, maledictory, meretricious, minor, naive, naked,
   nakedness, native, naturism, naturist, naturistic, neoteric,
   nerve ending, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged,
   nipping, nippy, not a stitch, nude, nudism, nudist, nudity,
   numbing, obscene, original, overbright, peeled, penetrating,
   piercing, pinching, pristine, profane, rank, rankling, rare,
   raw nerve, red, ribald, rigorous, ripening, risque, rough, rude,
   sappy, scatologic, screaming, scurrile, scurrilous, sempervirent,
   sensitive, severe, sharp, shrieking, simple, sleety, slushy,
   smarting, snappy, soft spot, sore, sore point, sore spot,
   stark-naked, state of nature, stone-cold, strange to, stripper,
   stripteaser, subzero, supercooled, tender, tender spot, tentative,
   the altogether, the nude, the quick, the raw, tingling,
   toplessness, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with,
   unadult, unapprized, unbaked, unbeaten, unboiled, uncomprehending,
   unconversant, unconversant with, uncooked, uncouth, underage,
   undercooked, underdone, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened,
   unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unformed,
   ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
   uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured,
   unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe,
   unseasoned, unskilled in, unsure, untouched, untried, untrodden,
   unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, vernal, vile,
   virgin, virginal, vituperative, vulgar, windblown, windswept,
   winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with nothing on,
   without a stitch, young