Ratch (n.) Same as Rotche.
Ratch (n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.
Ratchel (n.) Gravelly stone.
Ratchet (n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
Rate (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
Rate (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
Rate (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
Rate (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
Rate (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
Rate (n.) Order; arrangement.
Rate (n.) Ratification; approval.
Rate (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
Rate (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
Rate (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
Rated (imp. & p. p.) of Rate
Rating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rate
Rate (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
Rate (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Rate (v. t.) To ratify.
Rate (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
Rate (v. i.) To make an estimate.
Rateable (a.) See Ratable.
Ratel (n.) Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.
Ratepayer (n.) One who pays rates or taxes.
Rater (n.) One who rates or estimates.
Rater (n.) One who rates or scolds.
Ratfish (n.) Same as Rat-tail.
Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Rath (n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
Rath (a.) Alt. of Rathe
Rathe (a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
Rath (adv.) Alt. of Rathe
Rathe (adv.) Early; soon; betimes.
Rather (a.) Prior; earlier; former.
Rather (a.) Earlier; sooner; before.
Rather (a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.
Rather (a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
Rather (a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
Rather (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
Rather (a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.
Rathripe (a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.
Rathripe (n.) A rareripe.
Ratification (n.) The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.
Ratifier (n.) One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.
Ratified (imp. & p. p.) of Ratify
Ratifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ratify
Ratify (n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to 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.
Ratihabition (n.) Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract.
Ratio (n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. 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 / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.
Ratio (n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.
Ratiocinate (v. i.) To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
Ratiocination (n.) The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
Ratiocinative (a.) Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process.
Ratiocinatory (a.) Ratiocinative.
Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
Ration (n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
Ration (v. t.) To supply with rations, as a regiment.
Rational (a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
Rational (a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
Rational (a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
Rational (a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Rational (n.) A rational being.
Rationale (a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.
Rationalism (n.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
Rationalism (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
Rationalist (n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Rationalistic (a.) Alt. of Rationalistical
Rationalistical (a.) Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism.
-ties (pl. ) of Rationality
Rationality (n.) The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
Rationalization (n.) The act or process of rationalizing.
Rationalize (v. t.) To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
Rationalize (v. t.) To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
Rationalize (v. t.) To form a rational conception of.
Rationalize (v. t.) To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities.
Rationalize (v. i.) To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism.
Rationally (adv.) In a rational manner.
Rationalness (n.) The quality or state of being rational; rationality.
Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.
Ratitate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
Ratite (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
Ratite (n.) One of the Ratitae.
Ratlines (n. pl.) Alt. of Ratlins
Ratlins (n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.
Raton (n.) A small rat.
Ratoon (n.) Same as Rattoon, n.
Ratoon (n.) A rattan cane.
Ratoon (v. i.) Same as Rattoon, v. i.
Ratsbane (n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.
Ratsbaned (a.) Poisoned by ratsbane.
Rat-tail (a.) Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
Rat-tail (n.) The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
Rat-tail (n.) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.
Rat-tailed (a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
Rattan (n.) 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.
Ratteen (n.) A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
Ratten (v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.