Rashi, a Jewish scholar and exegete, born at Troyes; was an expert in all departments of Jewish lore as contained in both the Scriptures and the Talmud, and indulged much in the favourite Rabbinical allegorical style of interpretation (1040‒1105).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rappahannock * Rask, Rasmus Christian