not often, In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often, With uncommon excellence

A pad of material, typically hair, worn as part of a woman's coiffure to puff out her own hair, A person who is considered to act in some respect in a manner characteristic of rats_ so called in opprobrium, Some other rodent, or some insectivore, marsupial, or other animal like or likened to a rat, intransitive verb_ To hunt for or catch rats, especially with the aid of dogs, Slang To work as a scab laborer, To puff out (the hair) with or as if with a pad of material

Degree, rank, or estimation; rating; appraisement_ used of persons and their qualities, Charge or valuation according to a scale or standard; comparative price or amount of demand; a fixed measure of estimation, One who has failed; a person who is a failure, intransitive verb_ To set a rate for (goods to be shipped), To regard or consider as having a certain value, To berate, transitive verb_ To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree, verb_ To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate

Simple past tense and past participle of rate

Plural form of rate, Taxes, usually on property, levelled by local government, a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)

more readily or willingly, More properly; more correctly speaking, Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat, verb_ To prefer; to prefer to

A fixing of rates; proportionate distribution as to charge or compensation; determination of relative values or rights, act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of, A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something, verb_ Present participle of rate

A number representing a comparison between two things, the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree, the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind, consistent with or based on or using reason, Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious, noun_ A rational number, One who is a believer in so-called ?rational? reforms, as in dress or food, Hence? A square plate of gold, silver, or embroidery, either jeweled or enameled, formerly worn on the breast over the chasuble by bishops during the celebration of mass. Also pectoral and rationale in both senses

Plural form of ratio