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Rarest

Rare \Rare\, a. [Compar. Rarer (r[^a]r"[~e]r); superl. Rarest.] [Cf. AS. hr[=e]r, or E. rare early. [root]18.] 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.

Note: This word is in common use in the United States, but in England its synonym underdone is preferred.

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rarest

a. (en-superlative of: rare)

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Harvard Yard, or along the banks of the Charles River-- became strange and rare and memorable, and for this reason Frank, in spite of the corrupt and rotten spot which would develop in his character and eventually destroy him, was one of the rarest and highest people that ever lived, and could never be forgotten by anyone who had ever known him and been his friend.

A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless.

The moth was not so uncommon, but by a combination of bad luck it had become the rarest in America for a friend of mine, who is making a collection to pay college expenses.

Shelley possessed a quality of mind which experience has shown me to be of the rarest occurrence among human beings: this was his UNWORLDLINESS.

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS He was my old fiend Death, in rarest trim, The occasion favouring his husbandry!

Crowds of lackeys flew through the rooms bearing silver plateaux filled with the richest viands, the most costly fruits, and the rarest wines.

Germain, who cut diamonds from glass, and cook up in their laboratories the rarest jewels!

Priceless now would this collection be, mixed up with horn-books--a single copy of which is one of the rarest relics of the olden time.

It was, he thought, the rarest of Samaritans, who had no interest in the private life of its wounded wayfarer.

Remembering the traditions of the age of Poggio, when the rarest classics might be found perishing in a garret or a cellar, Pinelli was always in the habit of visiting the dealers in old parchment and the brokers who carried off deeds and papers from sales, just as Dr.

In the golden twilight, the linen grave clothes gleamed like rarest samite, and the faces of both monks and mourners glowed.

She, as I afterwards learnt, jealous of my father referring to one of his guests as an orchid of the rarest kind, underwent a storm of the brain and, accusing me of stealing a button from his coat, set about me most roughly.

Surely, now, there is almost nothing that by day would be worthy of more than a glance from those great travellers who have ranged the earth, and known all its wild and stormy seas, and seen its rarest glories.

He always had a number of these little poems written down in a small note-book of black leather which he carried with him, and in which, at this time, with a precise and meticulous hand, he noted down his rarest thoughts, excerpts from books he had been reading, and these brief poems.

She did not know that he was paying her the rarest, the most valuable compliment that man can pay to woman.