RATING
RA'TING, participle present tense [from rate.]1. Setting at a certain value; assigning rant to; estimating.2. Chiding; reproving.
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RATIO
RA'TIO, noun ra'sho. [Latin from ratus, reor, to think or suppose, to set, confirm or establish. Reor is contracted from redor or retor, and primarily signifies to throw, to thr...
RATIOCINATE
RA'TIOCINATE, verb intransitive [Latin ratiocinor, from ratio, reason.] To reason; to argue. [Little used.]
RATIOCINATION
RATIOCINA'TION, noun [Latin ratiocinatio.] The act or process of reasoning, or of deducing consequences from premises. [See Reasoning.]
RATIOCINATIVE
RATIOC'INATIVE, adjective Argumentative; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; as a ratiocinative process. ...
RATION
RA'TION, noun [Latin ratio, proportion.]A portion or fixed allowance of provisions, drink and forage, assigned to each soldier in an army for his daily subsistence and for the s...
RATIONAL
RA'TIONAL, adjective [Latin rationalis.]1. Having reason or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason; opposed to irrational; as, man is a rational being; brutes are not rat...
RATIONALE
RATIONA'LE, noun1. A detail with reasons; a series of reasons assigned; as Dr. Sparrow's rationale of the Common Prayer.2. An account or solution of the principles of some opini...
RATIONALIST
RA'TIONALIST, noun One who proceeds in his disquisitions and practice wholly upon reason.
RATIONALITY
RATIONAL'ITY, noun1. The power of reasoning.God has made rationality the common portion of mankind.2. Reasonableness.Well directed intentions, whose rationalities will not bear ...
RATIONALLY
RA'TIONALLY, adverb In consistency with reason; reasonably. We rationally expect every man will pursue his own happiness.
RATIONALNESS
RA'TIONALNESS, noun The state of being rational or consistent with reason.
RATLIN
RAT'LIN,RAT'LINE, noun A small line traversing the shrouds of a ship, making the step of a ladder for ascending to the mast-heads.
RATLINE
RAT'LINE, n. A small line traversing the shrouds of a ship, making the step of a ladder for ascending to the mast-heads.
RATOON
RATOON', nounA sprout from the root of the sugar cane, which has been cut.
RATSBANE
RATS'BANE, noun [rat and bane.] Poison for rats; arsenic.
RATSBANED
RATS'BANED, adjective Poisoned by ratsbane.RAT'-TAIL, noun In farriery, an excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
RATTEEN
RATTEEN', noun A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
RATTINET
RATTINET', noun A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
RATTLE
RAT'TLE, verb intransitive1. To make a quick sharp noise rapidly repeated, by the collision of bodies not very sonorous. When bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling. We say,...
RATTLE-HEADED
RAT'TLE-HEADED, adjective Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
RATTLESNAKE
RAT'TLESNAKE, noun A snake that has rattles at the tail, of the genus Crotalus. The rattles consist of articulated horny cells, which the animal vibrates in such a manner as to ...
RATTLESNAKE-ROOT
RATTLESNAKE-ROOT, noun A plant or root of the genus Polygala, and another of the genus Prenanthes.
RATTLESNAKE-WEED
RATTLESNAKE-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.
RATTLING
RAT'TLING, participle present tense Making a quick succession of sharp sounds.RAT'TLING, noun A rapid succession of sharp sounds. Nahum 3.
RAUCITY
RAU'CITY, noun [Latin raucus, hoarse. Raucus is the Eng. rough, which see.]1. Hoarseness; a loud rough sound; as the raucity of a trumpet.2. Among physicians, hoarseness of the ...
RAUCOUS
RAU'COUS, adjective Hoarse; harsh. [Not in use.]