Rare

Pronunciation: râr´ẽr

a.	1.	Early. Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. - Chapman.
	1.	Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton. New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. - Dryden.
	1.	Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
	2.	Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found. Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. - Cowley. Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. - Dryden.
	3.	Thinly scattered; dispersed. Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. - Milton.
	4.	Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations. Water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer, than gold. - Sir I. Newton. A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world. - Burke. When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor. - Addison.

Adj.	1.	rare - not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"
	2.	rare - recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
	3.	rare - not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree in the desert"
	4.	rare - marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" Synonyms: uncommon
	5.	rare - having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" Synonyms: rarefied, rarified
	6.	rare - (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef"

RARE - Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne

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