rabbit-rat

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• Rabbit

  ·noun Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus c...

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• rabbit

  A Welch rabbit; bread and cheese toasted, i.e. a Welch rare bit. Rabbits were also a sort of wooden ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Rat

  ·vi To catch or kill rats. II. Rat ·noun A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, us...

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• rat

  A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and confined in the, watch-house. CANT. To smell a rat...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rat

  n. True Rodents are represented inAustralia and Tasmania by six genera; viz., Mus, Conilurus (= Hap...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rat

  1) A contemptuous term used by printers, to denote a man who works under price. TO RAT 2) Among pr...

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• rat

  A term for one who changes his party for interest: from rats deserting vessels about to sink. These ...

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• Water rabbit

  ·- ·see Water hare. ...

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• rabbit catcher

  A midwife. ...

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• rabbit suckers

  Young spendthrifts taking up goods on trust at great prices. ...

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• welch rabbit

  (i. e. a Welch rare-bit) Bread and cheese toasted. See rabbit.--The Welch are said to be so remarka...

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• Rat-tail

  ·noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. ·see <<Grenadier>>, 2. II. Rat-tail ·noun The California chim...

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• Rat-tailed

  ·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...

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• Sea rat

  ·- A <<Pirate>>. II. Sea rat ·- The <<Chimaera>>. ...

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• Water rat

  ·- A thief on the water; a pirate. II. Water rat ·- The <<Muskrat>>. III. Water rat ·- The water v...

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• Rat Alley

  North out of Great Eastcheap. In Candlewick Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). In O. and M. it exte...

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• beaver-rat

  n. an aquatic rodent, somethinglike the English water-rat, genus Hydromys. 1864. `Proceedings of t...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rat-kangaroo

  See kangaroo-rat ...

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• kangaroo-rat

  or Rat-Kangaroo n. the name applied to species of Marsupials belonging to thefollowing genera, viz...

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• moulde-rat

  a mole. Bedf. ...

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• rat-tail grass

  n. name given to – – (1) Ischaemum laxum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...

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