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The act or process of rationalizing.

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

In a rational manner.

The quality or state of being rational; rationality.

An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, and apteryx are examples.

Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ.

Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ. -- n.

verse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder. [Written also ratlings, and rattlings.] Totten.

A small rat. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Same as Rattoon, n.

Rat poison; white arsenic.

Poisoned by ratsbane.

One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.

A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.

n one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.

The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1. Sydney Smith.

on of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

Giddy; rattle-headed.