rabate

t. [ Fr.rabattre to beat down; pref. re, and abattre abate (q. v.).] Falconry: To the fist again. bring down or recover a hawk to *ra-băte, s . [RABATE, v .] Abatement, diminution. *rab-at-ine, s. [A dim in. of rabato (q. v.).] A sman rabato. IMG:content-0135.png:[blocks in formation] R THE eighteenth letter and the fourteenth consonant the English language nan cla ed angiemlanguagend a liquid. It is also called a trill. It is generally considered to have two sounds: The first, when begins word or syllable, and when it is preceded by a consonant, being then produced breath song almost by an expulsion of vocalized touching the palate or gum near the front teeth, with a greater or le tremulous motion, as in ran , tree, morose, .; the second, le decidedly consonantal, heard at the end of words and syllables, and when it is followed by a consonant, being formed by a vibration of the lower part of the tongue, near the root, against the soft palate, as in her, star, beard , . With many English speakers when followed by a consonant at the end of a syllable is scarcely heard as a separate, distinct sound, but has merely the effect of lengthening the preceding vowel, becoming in such cases a vowel, rather than a consonant. In Scotch and some dialects, r has always the same sound, being uttered with a strong vibration of the tongue, but le guttural than in French or German. By the Romans was called the "dogs' letter" ( liter a can in a ), from its sound resembling the snarling of dogs. In words derived from the Greek we follow the custom of the Romans, who represented the aspirated sound with which was pronounced by the Greeks, by rh, as in rhapsody, rhetoric , . In such words, however, the h has no influence on the pronuncia. tion of the English word, and is, therefore, entirely superfluous. Randlare frequently interchanged (see remarks under L ). They also sometimes change places. R sometimes represents a more original s, as in ear Goth. auso ; iron=O. Eng. isen, iren = Goth, eisarn . It has disappeared from some words, as speak A. S. spræcan : pin =A. S. preon ; palsy = Mid. Eng. parlesie, Fr. paralysie , Greek paralysis : cockade O. Fr. cocart , . R has intruded itself into several words to which it does not properly belong, as groom (bridegroom) = A.S.gum a; hoarse =A. S. hós ; partridge Fr. perdrix , Latin perdix ; cartridge Fr. cartouche ; culprit , from Lat.culpa ; corporal Fr. caporal. In celery it represents an original n , Gr. selinon. "[ R ] that's the dog's name; Ris for the dog." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. I. As an initial : R. represents the Latin rex = king, as George R. George, king; or regina = queen, as Victoria R. Victoria, queen. It also represents English royal , as R. N. Royal Navy, *ra-ba-tō, subst . [French rabat , from rabattre .] [RABATE, U. A neck-band or ruff; originally the collar turned back. "Troth, I think, your other rabato were better." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing, iii. 4. *răb-ban, s . [RABBI.] *răb-ban-Ist, s . [RABBINIST.] răb-bět, *răb-bot, *rab-ět, rě-bāte', v . t . [Fr. raboter =to plane, to lay level; rabot a joiner's plane; O. Fr. rabouter to thrust back, from Lat. re back; Fr. à (Lat. ad ) = to, and bouter = to thrust.] Carpentry: 1. To cut the edge of, as of a board, in a sloping manner, so that it may form a joint with another board similarly cut, by lapping; also to cut a rectangular groove or rece longitudinally in the corresponding projection upon the edge of another edge of, a board, timber, or the like, to receive board, ., so as to form a joint. 2. To lap and unite the edges of, as boards, ., by a rabbet.