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Rach(e, Ratch(e, n. Also: racch, raich, raych; rech(e. [ME racch(e (Orm), rachch, ME and e.m.E. ratche (Prompt. Parv.), OE ræcc, ON rakki a dog. ‘After c1530 only in Sc. use’ (OED).] A rache, a hunting dog which pursues its prey by scent.(a) 14.. Acts I 327/2.
That fre man may folow the rach in the kingis forest alsfer as he may cast his horn or his lesch
1438 Reg. St. A. 430.
A brais of grevhundis and a coppil of rachis
a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 1344. a1500 Henr. Fab. 555. a1500 Lanc. 531.
The rachis gon wn-copelit for the deire
1505 Treas. Acc. III 172.
Passand with raches in the cuntree to drif the deir to the park
1508 Reg. Privy S. I 241/1.
Divers oure liegis … distroys and frays our deir with stalking rachis
1531 Bell. Boece I xli.
The secound kind is ane rache, that sekis thair pray, baith of fowlis, beistis and fische, be sent
1535 Stewart 16864.
Small houndis to bring thame [sc. deer] to the burne … And mony ratche ta ryn vnder the rys
Ib. 16432.
Racchis
1552 Reg. Cupar A. II 107.
Thai sall … nwrice ane leiche of gud howndis, with ane cuppill of rachis for tod and wolf
a1568 Scott v 40. c1475 Wall. (1570) v 96.
[This] sluth ratche [ … On Wallace fute folowit]
c1575 Balfour Pract. 139 (see Mastif(f n.). 15.. Konrad Gesner Historia Animalium I App. 13.
Canis Scoticus sagax, uulgo dictus ane rache. Germanice dici potest, ein Schottischer wasserhund
a1603 Anc. Prophecies 16.
There shal come an hound out of the south, With him an ragment of ratches rewled right
1611 Reg. Panmure I xxxv.
The marquis vsit to hwnt withe ratches, and the lard with greyhundis
1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 372. a1700 Hay Geneal. Sainteclaires 14.(b) 1398–1400 Aberd. B. Rec. (S.H.S.) 63.
Quibusdam curris et le raychis eiusdem
c1536 Lynd. Compl. Bagsche 159.
Raichis
(c) 1518 Glenartney Doc.
As for huntaris that may be apprehendit huntand within our saide forest, that thar houndis and rechis be takin fra thame
1622-6 Bisset I 29/2.
Ilk nobill suld caus nurische twa reches and ane hund to his huntting

b. As the type of a relentless and cruel pursuer. Hence c. fig. 1561 Q. Kennedy Oratioune 20.
Thar pestilent precheouris … circumuenande the simple peple, cersande thair pray like the deuillis rachis
1570 Sat. P. xviii 23.
Throw out this realme lyke ratches se ȝe range And seik thair blude
1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 33 (see also Calderwood III 129).
And not content of it that thame selffis may still reif and brybe thay set out thair ratches on euery side
1597 Melvill 428.
Craftie men … Wha houndit furthe these ratches under night

d. Attrib. with Cuppill n. 3, q.v. for further examples. 1541 Treas. Acc. VII 459.
xij pair of rache cuppillis
1542 Ib. VIII 89.
To Patrik Sklater for dog lesches, brasis, collarris, … rache cuppellis
1542 Acts & Decr. I 141.
Rach cuppillis of siluer and silk colleris

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