The person who played so rarely on the flageolet.
Sir W. Scott.
The rest of the apartments are rarely gilded.
Evelyn.
Rare"ness, n. The state or quality of being rare.
And let the rareness the small gift commend.
Dryden.
Rare"ripe` (-rp`), a. [Rare early + ripe. Cf. Rathripe.] Early ripe;
ripe before others, or before the usual season.
Rare"ripe`, n. An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone
peach.
Rar`i*fi*ca"tion (rr`*f*k"shn), n. See Rarefaction. [R.] Am. Chem.
Journal.
Rar"i*ty (rr"*t; 277), n.; pl. Rarities (- tz). [L. raritas: cf. F.
rareté. See Rare.] 1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness;
thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
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2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its
scarcity.
I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than
any other shows in the place.
Addison.
Ras (räs), n. See 2d Reis.
||Ra`sante" (r`zäNt"), a. [F., p. pr. of raser to graze.] (Fort.)
||Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which
||the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is
||kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or
||graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.
Ras"cal (rs"kal), n. [OE. rascaille rabble, probably from an OF.
racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler
to scrape, (assumed) LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum.
See Rase, v.]
1. One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature;
collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean,
ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.]
He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the
rascal.
Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19).
Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge
as the rascal.
Shak.
2. A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a
scoundrel; a trickster.
For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who
pretends to more.
Dryden.
Ras"cal, a. Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low;
mean; base. "The rascal many." Spenser. "The rascal people." Shak.
While she called me rascal fiddler.
Shak.
Ras"cal*dom (-dm), n. State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of
rascals; rascals, collectively. Emerson.