Definition of rat

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Rat (v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union..

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Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.
Octocerata :: Octocerata (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda..
Classical :: Classical (n.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds..
Lime :: Lime (v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them..
Steep :: Steep (v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively..
Strategy :: Strategy (n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship..
Permit :: Permit (v. t.) To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
Muneration :: Muneration (n.) Remuneration.
Prone :: Prone (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine..
Usury :: Usury (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Perforate :: Perforate (v.) To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.
Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
Conspirator :: Conspirator (n.) One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter.
Elegant :: Elegant (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure..
Ingenerate :: Ingenerate (a.) Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body..
Commensurate :: Commensurate (v. t.) To reduce to a common measure.
Prorogation :: Prorogation (n.) The act of counting in duration; prolongation.
Still :: Still (a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
Plank :: Plank (n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform..
Inaugural :: Inaugural (a.) Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises..
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