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[OF. rate, price, value, Pr. Sp. Pg. It. rata = G. rate, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 46. One of the nece ary properties of pure Motion is Velocity. It is not po ible to think of Motion without thinking of a corresponding Rate of motion. A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 52. As regards travelling, the fastest rate along the high roads was ten miles an hour. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 5. It was no longer practicable to levy the duties on the old plan of one rate for unrefined and another rate for refined sugars. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, IV. 31. 2. Charge or valuation according to a scale or 4969 over are of the first rate, of 3,000 and above but below 5,000 tons of the second rate, of 1,000 and above but below 3,000 tons of the third rate, of le than 1,000 tons of the fourth rate. In cla ifying the navies of England, France, and the other principal European powers the term cla is used instead of rate, and relates not so much to the actual weight or power of the ships as to arbitrary divisions of types of ve els, and to their relative importance as battle-ships, cruisers, etc. 9. In the United States navy, the grade or position of any one of the crew: same as rating2, 2.-10. In horology, the daily gain or lo of a chronometer or other timepiece. A losing rate is called by astronomers a positive rate, because it entails a positive correction to the difference of readings of the clock-face. At any rate, in any manner, or by any means; in any case; at all events; positively; a uredly: as, I shall stay at any rate; at any rate the claim is a valid one. IMG:content-1660.jpg:[blocks in formation] This day at no rate Shalt thou per for me thy worke, least thou doe draw My heavy wrath vpon thee. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 16. County rates, landing-rates, police rate, etc. See landing, change, in math., the ratio of an infinitesimal increment of any function to that of the independent variable. Thus, the rate of change of x2 relatively to x is 2x.-Rate of exchange. Same as course of exchange (which see, under exchange ). - Rate of profit. See profit. (See also church - rate, poor - rate.)=Syn. 3. A e ment, Impost, etc. See tax. rate2 (rat), v.; pret. and pp. rated, ppr. rating. [ If thou be'st rated by thy estimation. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 7. 26. The frigid productions of a later age are rated at no more Macaulay, Dryden. than their proper value. mand; a fixed measure of estimation. A jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate . Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 213. I am not.. content to part with my commodities at a cheaper rate than I accustomed; look not for it. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. They have no Goods but what are brought from Manilo at an extraordinary dear rate . Dampier, Voyages, I. 308. Servants could be hired of their nominal owners at a barley-corn rate. The Century , XXXIX. 139. 3. A fixed public tax or imposition a e ed on property for some local purpose, usually according to income or value: as, poor- rates or church- rates in Great Britain. They paid the Church and Parish Rate , And took, but read not the Receit. Prior, An Epitaph. The empowering of certain boards to borrow money repayable from the local rates , to employ and pay those out of work. H. Spencer , Man vs. State, p. 9. A sewers rate , however, was known as early as the sixth year of Henry VI. (1427). Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 477. 4+. A proportion allotted or permitted; an allotment or provision; a regulated amount or supply. The one right feeble through the evill rate Of food which in her dure e she had found. Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 19. The people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4. 5. A relative scale of being, action, or conduct; comparative degree or extent of any mode of existence or procedure; proportion in manner or method: as, an extravagant rate of living or of expenditure. See at any rate, at no norate, below. With wyse men there is rest & peace, after a ble ed rate. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. With might and delight they spent all the night, And liv'd at a plentiful rate . Robin Hood and the Ranger (Child's Ballads, V. 210). Tom hinting his dislike of some trifle his mistre had said, she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage, if he talked at this rate before. Add is on . Hence-6t. Mode or manner of arrangement; order; state. Thus sate they all around in seemely rate. Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 52. IMG:content-1661.png:[blocks in formation] the comparative liability of, for taxation or the like; reckon at so much in obligation or capability; set a rate upon. Tell us (I pray you) how ye would have the sayd landes rated, that both a rente may rise thereout unto the Queene, and also the souldiours paye. Spenser , State of Ireland. Look on my George; I am a gentleman; Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 30. Charles S. What do you rate him at, Moses? Moses . Four guineas. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 1. 3. To fix the relative scale, rank, or position of: as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman.-4. To determine the rate of, or rate-error of, as a chronometer or other timepiece. See rate1, n., 10. Our chronometers, rated but two weeks ago at Upernavik. Kane , Sec. Grinn. Exp., I. 68. Rating-instrument, a rude transit-instrument for determining time accurately to half a second, in order to rate watches. II. in trans. To have value, rank, standing, or estimation: as, the ve el rates as a ship of the line. IMG:content-1662.png:[blocks in formation] rateen, n. Dryden, Don Sebastian, Prol., 1. 43. See ratteen .