רַעַץ, (preced.) [rugged,] Raʿats, the form of the Samaritan type, opp. אַשּׁוּרִית, q. v. Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot. בר׳ ניתנה התורה the Torah was given in Raʿats characters. Ib. אשורית … נהפך להן לר׳ וכ׳ the Torah was given them in Asshurith, but when they sinned, it was changed for them into Raʿats, and when they improved in Ezra’s days, it was changed &c.; Snh. 22ᵃ לרועץ (Ms. F. לרעוץ, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 200); Tosef. ib. IV, 7 לרועץ; Yalk. Ezra 1069 לרועץ. Y. Meg. I, 71ᶜ top מאן דאמר בר׳ … עי"ן מעשה נסים (not לר׳) according to him who says that the Torah was given in R., the letter ʿAyin (Δ, cut out on the tablets of stone) was a work of miracle (there being no connection left with the body of the stone).—[Ar. quotes a Var. דַּעַץ wedge-like.]