most on Nuts, and (contrarie to other Mice) is easily tamed. Rat de Nuremberg. The Rat of Noremberg; coated almost like a Hare, and hauing but two little holes in stead of eares. Rat Pannonique. A small rat of a greenish colour; but otherwise resembling our Weesell. Rat de Pharaon. The Jndian Rat; as big as a Cat, and mortall enemie to the Crocodile, whose gaping mouth he creepes into, and getting thence into his bowels, eats them, and kills him. Rat de Ponte. The Ponticke Rat, or Mouse; white of colour, and as big as a Squirrell; his tayle (of a fingers length) hauing a verie blacke tip, makes him held, by some a kind of Ermine, or Ermeline. Rat velu. A Dormouse. Oreille de rat. The hearbe Mouse-eare; also, a kind of Chickweed, or hearbe like Chickweed. Yeux de rat. Small eyes, pinke eyes. Rats en paille. A rustling, foule coyle, hurlyburly, bustling; also, a reuelling, or iollitie; whence; Plus ioyeux que rats en paille. More friske, or liuelie then Rats on a Chaff heape. Prendre vn rat par la queuë. To cut a purse. Les rats se promenent à l'aise là ou il n'y a point de chats: Pro. The Rats may safely play, when as the Cat's away. À bon rat bon chat: Pro. Looke Chat. Trop tard se repent le rat entre les pattes du chat: Pro. The Rat can verie ill plead Law when the Cat hath him vnder her paw.
Rataconné: m. ée: f. Patched, botched, cobled, clowted.
Rataconner. To patch, botch, coble, clowt.
Rataconnerie: f. A patching, or botching, a cobling, or clowting.
Rataconneur: m. A patcher, botcher, cobler.
Rataconniculer. To reiterate leacherie.
Ratatiné: m. ée: f. Grubbie, shrunke in, thick and short; Looke Rattatiné. Rate: f. The Spleene, or Milt. Ayez bonne rate. Be liuelie, be merrie, plucke vp your spirits man, be of good cheare.
Rateau: m. as Radeau. Rateceler. To clowt, or coble a shooe, &c.
Ratelant. Hunting after Mise and Rats; also, howling, or crying, like an Owle.
Ratelée: f. A rablement; a fond saw, or saying. Sa ratelée du butin. His share of the bootie. En dire sa ratelée. To speake his mind, blurt out his sentence, deliuer vp his opinion, of the matter.
Rateler. To hunt Rats, and Mice as an Owle; also, to howle, skreeke, or cry, like an Owle.
Ratelier. as Rastelier. Ratelle: f. as Rate. Ratelou: m. Long Hartwort, or Birthwort, male Birthwort.
Ratepenade: f. A Bat, Rearemouse, or Flickermouse; also, a kind of Scatefish; as Glorieuse. Ratepenade de mer. The flying fish; because in colour, and forme of wings it somewhat resembles a Batt. Ratepenades. as Raquettes. Ratiere: f. A Mouse-trap.
Ratifié: m. ée: f. Ratified, confirmed, established, warranted, aßured vnto.
Ratifier. To ratifie, confirme, establish, approue, warrant, assure vnto.
Ratiocination: f. A discoursing, discussing, arguing, disputing reasoning, debating of matters.
Ratiociner. To reason, discourse, discusse, dispute, argue, debate.
Rational: m. ale: f. Reasonable; indued with reason, hauing the vse, or power, of reason.
Ratissé: m. ée: f. Scraped, rasped, grated.
Ratisser. To scrape; to raspe; to grate. Ratisser le cerveau. To vex, or perplex the braines.
Ratissoire: f. A Raspe; also, a Grater.
Ratissouër: m. An yron raspe, rake, or scraper.
Ratissure: f. A rasping, or scraping; also, the scrapings of.
Rat-liron : m. A Dormouse.
Ratoir: m. A Mouse-trap, or a Trap for Rats.
Ratoire: m. A Ruptorie; a skinne-breaking oyntment, medicine, or salue.
Ratoire: f. The hole in a dore for a Cat to goe in and out at; also, a Mouse-hole; also, as Ratoir. Raton: m. A little Rat (or Mouse;) also, as Raston. Ratouëre: f. A paring shouell; also, a Rat-trap.
Ratrapé: m. ée: f. Reintrapped.
Ratraper. To reintrap; to catch, or lay hands on once againe.
Rattaindre. To reach, or ouertake againe.
Rattatiné: m. ée: f. Grubbie, shrunke in, thicke and short; also, as Renfrongné, ou Rechigné. Ratte. as Rate. Ratteindre. To reach, or ouertake once more.
Ratteint: m. te: f. Raught, or ouertaken againe.
Ratteinte: f. A reaching, or ouertaking once more.
Ratteloup. as Ratelou. Rattendrir. To make tender, or soft againe.
Ratte-volage: f. A Batt.
Rattier: m. ere: f. Sullen, retired, vnsociable, vncompanable, solitarie, strange; also, spleenaticke, or belonging to the Spleene.
Rattierement. Sullenly, retiredly, priuately, solitarily, vnsociably, in huggar-muggar.
Rat-veul: m. A Dormouse.
Rature: f. A raze, or scratch; a razing, or scraping out; a cancelling, or putting out. Rature encriere. A dash, or stroake through a word with a penne.
Raturé: m. ée: f. Razed, scraped, effaced, cancelled, blotted, strucke, or dashed, out.
Ravacher. as Ravasser. Ravage: m. Rauage, hauocke, spoyle; a violent, and suddaine ransacking, forraying, irruption into; an ouerrunning, or ouerflowing of a countrey, whether by incursion of enemies, or inundation of waters.
Ravagé: m. ée: f. Rauaged, spoyled, forrayed, sacked, ransacked, made hauocke of, wasted, ouerflowne, ouerrunne, violently and suddainely.
Ravager. To rauage, forray, spoyle, prey vpon, make hauocke of, sacke, ransacke; violently to ouerrunne, suddainely to ouerflow.
Ravageur: m. A rauager, spoyler, forrayer, sacker, ransacker, one that makes hauocke of all he can come neere.
Ravaille: m. Small fish sold one with another.
Raval. as Ravallement. Ravallé: m. ée: f. Deiected, humbled, cast or sunke downe, debased, depressed; leßened or fallen in price; brought low, taken or swallowed downe.
Ravallement: m. A deiecting, debasing, depressing, a casting, or sinking, a taking, or swallowing, downe; a falling in price; an humbling, abating, abasing;