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- English Word Ratable Definition Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.
- English Word Ratafia Definition A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.
- English Word Ratan Definition See Rattan.
- English Word Ratany Definition Same as Rhatany.
- English Word Rataplan Definition The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.
- English Word Ratch Definition Same as Rotche.
- English Word Ratch Definition A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.
- English Word Ratchel Definition Gravelly stone.
- English Word Ratchet Definition A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- English Word Ratchet Definition A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
- English Word Rate Definition To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
- English Word Rate Definition Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
- English Word Rate Definition 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.
- English Word Rate Definition Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
- English Word Rate Definition 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.
- English Word Rate Definition Order; arrangement.
- English Word Rate Definition Ratification; approval.
- English Word Rate Definition The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
- English Word Rate Definition The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
- English Word Rate Definition The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
- English Word Rate Definition To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
- English Word Rate Definition To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
- English Word Rate Definition 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.
- English Word Rate Definition To ratify.
- English Word Rate Definition To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
- English Word Rate Definition To make an estimate.
- English Word Rateable Definition See Ratable.
- English Word Rated Definition of Rate
- English Word Ratel Definition Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.
- English Word Ratepayer Definition One who pays rates or taxes.