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The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or chick works.

Gravelly stone. [Prov. Eng.]

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow.

See Ratable.

Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

One who pays rates or taxes.

One who rates or estimates.

Same as Rat-tail.

A hill or mound. [Ireland] Spencer.

Coming before others, or before the usual time; early. [Obs. or Poetic] Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. Milton.

Prior; earlier; former. [Obs.] Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.

Rareripe, or early ripe. -- n.

., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentia…

The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.

One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer. Shak.

settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle. South.

Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

nd. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.