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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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340 words match “RARE”

RARE a. 6 definitions

Early. [Obs.] Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. Chapman.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.

The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; - - opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

Capable of being rarefied. Boyle.

RAREFY v. 2 definitions

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

RARELY adv. 2 definitions

In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.

The state or quality of being rare. And let the rareness the small gift commend. Dryden.

RARERIPE a. 2 definitions

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

CONTRAREMONSTRANT n.

r answer to a remonstraint. [R.] They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales.

A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

CURARE; CURARI n.

A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari,…

EXTRAREGULAR a.

Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor.

FERRARESE a. 2 definitions

Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy. -- n., sing. & pl.

SUPRARENAL a. 2 definitions

A suprarenal capsule. Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies.

Situated beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.

URARE; URARI n.

Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number (Math.), a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficie…

ADDISON'S DISEASE n.

wnish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.