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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
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rat
n.
True Rodents are represented inAustralia and Tasmania by six genera; viz., Mus, Conilurus (= Hap...
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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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Tailed
·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails;
— chiefly used in composition; as, bob...
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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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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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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beaver-rat
n.
an aquatic rodent, somethinglike the English water-rat, genus Hydromys.
1864. `Proceedings of t...
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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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rabbit-rat
n.
name sometimes givento a hapalote (q.v.), in New South Wales.
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moulde-rat
a mole. Bedf.
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Crop-tailed
·adj Having the tail cropped.
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Dag-tailed
·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
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Daggle-tailed
·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
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Draggle-tailed
·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
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Fan-tailed
·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
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Fork-tailed
·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed;
— said of many bir...
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Pin-tailed
·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest;
— said of birds.
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Racket-tailed
·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
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Red-tailed
·adj Having a red tail.
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Ring-tailed
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
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Ruby-tailed
·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
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Scissors-tailed
·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....
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Spine-tailed
·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips.
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Stiff-tailed
·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
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Stump-tailed
·adj Having a short, thick tail.
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Swallow-tailed
·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
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Wedge-tailed
·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...
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Wire-tailed
·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...
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culver-tailed
Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....
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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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nail-tailed wallaby
n.
See onychogale.
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stump-tailed lizard
n.
an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray.
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