Rare
Rare (râr) , adjective
Early. [Obsolete]
Rude mechanicals that rare and late
Work in the market place.
Rare (râr"ẽr) , adjective
[Compare Anglo-Saxon hrēr, or English rare early. r18.]
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.
This word is in common use in the United States, but in England its synonym underdone is preferred.
Rare (râr"ẽr) , adjective
[French, from Latin rarus thin, rare.]
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.
Above the rest I judge one beauty rare.
3.
Thinly scattered; dispersed.
Those rare and solitary, these in flocks.
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.
A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world.
When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor.