rebate (2)

[Etym. doubtful; prob. the same as rebate, 3.] 1. A kind of hard freestone used in pavements. 2. A piece of wood fastened to a handle for beat ing mortar. 3. A joggle. [RABBET.] rě-bāte' (3), 8. [REBATE, ν .] I. Ord. Lang.: Diminution, le ening, abatement. II. Technically : 1. Comm.: Abatement in price; discount, deduction. " Rebate [is] the abating from the interest of money in Bot.: Reaumuriads; an order of Hypogynous Exo- gens, alliance Guttiferales. Small shrubs, with consideration of prompt payment."-Jacob: Law Diction- fleshy, scale-like exstipulate leaves, covered with resinous sunk glands. Flowers surrounded by imbricated bracts; petals five, hypogynous, with unequal sides; stamens definite or indefinite, monadelphous or polyadelphous. Fruit capsular, two to five-valved, two to five-celled, seeds definite in each cell. From the coast of the Mediterranean and the salt plains of temperate Asia. Known genera three, species four. ( Lindley .)