raisin/ˈɹeɪzən/EtymologyFrom Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.raisin means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.nameA surname.nounA dried grape.“Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.”verbOf 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.”To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.“We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.”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.”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.”To shrivel.“If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.”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.”