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- English Word Rasp Definition To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
- English Word Rasp Definition Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
- English Word Rasp Definition A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
- English Word Rasp Definition The raspberry.
- English Word Raspatorium Definition See Raspatory.
- English Word Raspatory Definition A surgeon's rasp.
- English Word Raspberry Definition The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
- English Word Raspberry Definition The shrub bearing this fruit.
- English Word Rasped Definition of Rasp
- English Word Rasper Definition One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
- English Word Rasping Definition of Rasp
- English Word Raspis Definition The raspberry.
- English Word Raspy Definition Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
- English Word Rasse Definition A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.
- English Word Rasure Definition The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
- English Word Rasure Definition A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
- English Word Rat Definition One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
- English Word Rat Definition A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
- English Word Rat Definition One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
- English Word Rat Definition In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
- English Word Rat Definition To catch or kill rats.
- English Word Rat-tail Definition Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
- English Word Rat-tail Definition An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
- English Word Rat-tail Definition The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
- English Word Rat-tail Definition Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.
- English Word Rat-tailed Definition Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
- English Word Rata Definition A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
- English Word Ratability Definition The quality or state of being ratable.
- English Word Ratable Definition Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
- English Word Ratable Definition Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.