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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aii Softe my frende, herein your reason is but rawe.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Xj The iudges..lefte the matter rawe without iudgement for that tyme.

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. G2^v She made no wordes therof, but closed it by againe, mistrusting the author, & maruellyng at the vnperfect ende therof, whiche N.O. lefte so rawe.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 137 Some Surueyors ouer credulous, will take their raw reports for matter of record.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. xi. 404 How crude and raw soever our Evenings Conversation had been, these Reflections like a desert of Condited Fruits, gave a good Farewel.

1720 D. Waterland Farther Vind. Christ's Div. viii. §7 To set his raw conceptions and fond reasonings about the meaning of a word, against such valuable authorities.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 6 The colouring of the Saturn [was] too raw, and his figure too muscular.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 284 That peculiarly raw, half-discordant sound which is characteristic of all Oriental music.

1876 E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's Head 13 That great raw pretentious building.

1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare ii. 13 At the beginning of his four years in 1816, Keats had written a handful of raw sonnets, from which I doubt whether the most perceptive of critics could have deduced even a moderate harvest to come.

1990 Ideal Home Aug. 88/1 Some may appear rather raw at first, but soon weather and tone down to a softer shade.