Raisinname

• 1

  A surname.

raisinnoun/ˈɹeɪzən/

• 1

  A dried grape.

  • Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.

raisinverb/ˈɹeɪzən/

• 1

  Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.

  • Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.
  • The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed.
• 2

  To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

  • We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.
  • The 12-year-old Redbreast is the most easily found and shows single pot still at its most defiant: oily and rich with stewed plums, light leather, creme caramel and a dense, raisined palate where the tongue tries to cleave through the white peaches.
• 3

  To add raisins to.

  • Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.
  • Her nicest one is sweetened with sugar, then spiced, buttered, egged, and raisined, to be baked for a mere hour and a half because the proportion of meal to milk is so small that the result is more like a thickened custard than a hasty pudding.
• 4

  To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.

  • It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course.
  • While Mother raisined our oatmeal with niacin tablets and wheatgermed our milk, Opal baked us sugar cakes and sugar cookies, deep-fried us sugar doughnuts.
• 5

  To shrivel.

  • If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.
  • Beneath a raisined basketball, among nail polish, dead spiders and other junk, I found a faded photograph of Hannah with cropped, spiky red hair and brilliant purple eye shadow painted all the way to her eyebrows.
• 6

  To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.

  • Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins. Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him.
  • And shouldn't we be getting out of here before we get, y'know, raisined or something?'
• 7

  To cause to have wrinkles.

  • She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.
  • Before him, a stoic mother, hands raisined from the scrubbing of clothing and children.
• 8

  To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.

  • We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin .
  • She remained under the spray until the hot water heater ran out and her skin raisined.