Noun, : Snowstorms are a rarity in the South. ,That folio is a rarity that will bring a good price. ,Volcanic eruptions on the island occur with great rarity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Even so, I do not believe that the decline in supply of choice silver and gold rarities is as severe as Sperber suggests.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Weekly Column: Coin Rarities & Related Topics : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Billy Joel’s great, and an entire disc of rarities is what sells this to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Official] Reference

Volume in rarities has been significant.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Weekly Column: Coin Rarities & Related Topics : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Love You Live, so you can go stuff these "rarities" where the sun don't shine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Why are such a high percentage of these "rarities" come from the late '80s and onwards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

"rarities" that were readily available in their discography that I've already happened to have reviewed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

The collection includes an entire disc of rarities and outtakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CD Collection Of NPR Funding Credits Is A 'True Gem'] Reference

We have our children's album available along with a rarities disc.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Might Be Onto Something] Reference

Champion Baseball up to around 8,000 to 9,000 yen for boxed rarities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

It organizes hits and prime rarities into three career-spanning discs.    From Wordnik.com.  ['David Bowie: Platinum Collection'] Reference

Whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella have become rarities in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE MARCH TO ERADICATE CHILD ILLNESS] Reference

Asian players remain rarities while Islamophobia is arguably the new racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Gérard, How times have changed...] Reference

The long horns, preserved as precious rarities in many places, are narwhal-tusks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

The album, a mix of standards and rarities, is a tribute to pals who've passed away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catching Up] Reference

'The Book of Snobs' was one of those literary rarities that has genius in its very name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

Girl With a Pearl Earring: One of those rarities where the book and the movie are both good.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIP SHEET] Reference

The gloomy sets and nighttime scenes so standard elsewhere on TV are rarities on these shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [USA's Magic Formula For Making Hits] Reference

Last year EMI tested the Beatles 'fan base with a rarities compilation called "Live at the BBC.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Together] Reference

Threescore guineas shall hardly fetch these black-letter rarities from the pigeon-holes of Mr Thorpe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

They are neither archeologic nor artistic, but the greatest of earthly rarities -- curiosities of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Once particular to egg-headed museum types who cared for collections of rarities, now curating, at least.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Time with Feeling: Young Curators, New Ideas III at P-P-O-W] Reference

There are often books among these rarities, which money cannot replace, because no copies can be found when wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

He, indeed, who sets his mind on the possession of any one of these rarities, may go to his grave a disappointed man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

(Soundbite of music) SIMON: There's a second CD along with the reissue of the original album, with rarities, outtakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheryl Crow Debuts All Over Again] Reference

Ordinary books can be replaced if carried off, and by watching the rarities, risk of theft can be reduced to a minimum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

GROSS: Well, you brought a few rarities with you, and you have this 1943 radio interview with Frank Loesser that you brought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresh Air Celebrates Frank Loesser's 100th Birthday] Reference

Customers for the rarities are found amongst numerous collectors, and to a more limited extent in the large public libraries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Color prints before and after this period did not appeal to discriminating collectors except as rarities, as exotic offshoots.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference

The original songs are accompanied by outtakes and rarities, plus documentary footage from the �Tuesday Night Music Club� tour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheryl Crow Debuts All Over Again] Reference

Mild nights in the depth of winter, or in very early spring, sometimes afford rarities, and certainly many hybernated common species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

It is not wonderful that it now and then found itself, quite unintentionally, a museum, where the far-brought rarities were living souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

So Michael Feinstein, we asked you to bring some Frank Loesser rarities with you today, and I think you certainly succeeded with this one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresh Air Celebrates Frank Loesser's 100th Birthday] Reference

When the callow, cash-strapped Jackie looks into selling these rarities, she plunges into a world of conspiracies, half-truths and con men.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mauritius' at 1st Stage: A stamp saga that doesn't deliver the goods] Reference

He would give all the books in his study (which are rarities all,) for one of the old Roman binding, or six lines of Tully in his own hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference