Raw

Part of speech: noun (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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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:

4. Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] Bacon.

5. Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

6. Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.

7. Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.

8. Not tanned; as, raw hides.

9. Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

10. Not covered; bare. Specifically:

11. Bald. [Obs.] "With scull all raw." Spencer

12. Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

13. Sore, as if by being galled. And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. Spenser.

14. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; 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.