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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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RARERIPE a. 2 definitions

Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

RARIFICATION n.

See Rarefaction. [R.] Am. Chem. Journal.

RARITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

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.

RASCAL n. 3 definitions

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 [h…

State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively. Emerson.

A female rascal. [Humorous]

RASCALITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

A low, mean wretch [Written also rascalion.]

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

RASE v. 7 definitions

To rub along the surface of; to graze.[Obsoles.] Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

RASH n. 10 definitions

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. -- Nettle rash. See Urticaria. -- Rose rash. See Roseola. -- Tooth rash. See Red-gum.

RASHER n. 2 definitions

A thin slice of bacon.

Rash; hasty; precipitate. [Obs.]

A rash person. [Obs.]

In a rush manner; with precipitation. He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not. L'Estrange.

The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South.

One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [Written also rascolnik.]

An order of birds; the Gallinæ.