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Webster 1913 Edition

Wrack

Wrack

,
Noun.
A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

Wrack

,
Verb.
T.
To rack; to torment.
[R.]

Wrack

,
Noun.
[OE.
wrak
wreck. See
Wreck
.]
1.
Wreck; ruin; destruction.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
“A world devote to universal wrack.”
Milton.
2.
Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera
Fucus
,
Laminaria
, and
Zostera
, which are most abundant on northern shores.
3.
(Bot.)
Coarse seaweed of any kind.
Wrack grass
, or
Grass wrack
(Bot.)
,
eelgrass.

Wrack

,
Verb.
T.
To wreck.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wrack

WRACK

, WRECK,
Noun.
[See Wreck.] A name given to a marine plant which is of great utility as a manure. It is called sometimes sea-wrack or sea-wreck, and sea-oak and sea-tangle. It is the Fucus vesiculosus of Linne, a plant found on rocks left dry at low water. The stalk runs along the middle of the leaf, and is terminated by watery bladders. The grass wrack is of the genus Zostera. Wrack, and to wrack. [See Wreck.]

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