Adjective, : a rare disease; His visits are rare occasions. ,Lighthouses are rare on that part of the coast. ,rare gases; lightheaded from the rare mountain air. ,a rare display of courage. ,She showed rare tact in inviting them. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective, : He likes his steak rare. From Dictionary.com.
In other words, the Board agreed with Judge Seeherman's view that "rareness" is the most important factor in the surname analysis. From Wordnik.com. [The TTABlog®] Reference
He knew how to cook a thick steak to just the right rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
A spirit, for all its rareness, not of “heaven” but of Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Upsets are great, but their specialness derives from their rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Hanlon: What Boring Super Bowl? The NFL at Its Best] Reference
Marie's four years of training made her recognize the rareness of this giving. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Realizing the rareness of this opportunity to study him unaware, she leaned closer. From Wordnik.com. [Tanner Ties]
The beef was cooked about 85% with a few pieces showing some rareness, which I don't mind. From Wordnik.com. [My New Toy: The Wok - Beef Chow Fun & Beef Chow Mein (Crispy) Recipe] Reference
Do you think you would be able to recognize the fabulousness and rareness of the clumbers?. From Wordnik.com. ["He sees an opening right now to move the law toward what the conservative movement wants..."] Reference
"Do you think you would be able to recognize the fabulousness and rareness of the clumbers?". From Wordnik.com. ["He sees an opening right now to move the law toward what the conservative movement wants..."] Reference
On the contrary, the cow will be considered sacred, in consequence of its rareness and utility. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Because of the cool looking alternate cover art and rareness of the film I picked it up immediately. From Wordnik.com. [SLEEP DEALER - A Movie Review] Reference
"Ruth has a quaint rareness all her own," Sprague answered, watching the play of the girl's mobile face. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
I may be a cock-eyed optimist, but I think the comments about the rareness of Centruroides are well taken. From Wordnik.com. [Alacran] Reference
If the exhalation is exceedingly rare this rareness prevents the thunderbolt from scorching and the poets call it. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
He knew something of Browning and little of Keats, but he had at least the wit to discern the rareness of her type. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Luxuries might be as plain as running water or a shady tree, whose rareness and misuse often turned them into lusts. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The world is dwindling away, for lack of men; the nations are perishing for scarcity of men, for the rareness of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Home as a Spiritual Center] Reference
One of the first Englishmen to see this large dove said that 'for shape and rareness it might antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia'. From Wordnik.com. [Last Chance to See]
Girls: Colorado Rack of Lamb, Fresh Herbs, Baby Spring Vegetables the crust on this chop stood in stark contrast to its rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Fleur de Sel: 672 mezzorilian stars] Reference
I read their emails about the beauty of these sweaters, their interesting history, their relative rareness and their new manifestations. From Wordnik.com. [February 2007] Reference
What we know about how he died and we've talked to a lot of animal experts about the rareness of this likelihood of it, what you need to know. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference
Where she finds reciprocation, it is a delight of which the measure compensates the rareness; and where she finds nothing else to enjoy, she can herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference
Distinguished guests still sat at his table and ate ducks cooked to the proper state of rareness, and terrapin in a chafing-dish, with a dash of old sherry. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The employment of it accounts for the rareness of good sardines, as the remaining of such a substance in the body of the animal cannot fail of corrupting it. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The metal of which she was made had been tempered to a steel which was very rare and fine, but the rareness and fineness of which he had failed to appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
It is certain that there is something in the difficulty of attainment which adds much to the preciousness of the objects we desire; much, too, in the rareness of their bestowal. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
We welcomed even the rareness of the air that made us pant as we ran, and which rendered speaking no longer the easy thing that it had been, but an effort to make oneself heard. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
Monks and nuns who prophesy are not of that rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
This sort of rareness only comes about in a blue moon. From Wordnik.com. [Listal promoted] Reference
Infidelity in marital relations, punishment for; rareness of. From Wordnik.com. [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference
Please bear with me while I bask in the glory of my rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Nurse] Reference
He pulls apart the fish and a thin line of rareness is visible. From Wordnik.com. [Ms. Glaze's Pommes d'Amour] Reference
It had been a compelling smile, charming for its very rareness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
As to the rareness of the calls, I read of seven wars since the. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates] Reference
She forgets, as it were, her own sweet arts, and all that rareness adds to beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
It was a strange picture that Mr. Carleton was looking at, -- strange for its rareness. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Think of her as raw, she has the gift of rareness: forget the donkey obstinacy, her character grasps. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
The wealthy young noble prized any form of rareness wherever it was visible, having no thought of the purchase of it, except with worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
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