rat, n.m., rat; whim, crotchet, fad; niggard; taper. — d’eau; water-rat. — de Pharaon; ichneumon. Mort aux —s; rat’s-bane. Un nid à —s; a sorry lodging. Gueux comme un — d’église; as poor as a church mouse. À bon chat bon —; set a thief to catch a thief. — de cave; small wax taper; exciseman. Avoir des —s; to be whimsical. — de l’opéra; ballet-girl. Prendre un —; to miss fire. — d’église; church-goer.
ratafia, n.m., ratafia.
ratang, n.m., ratan.
ratanhia, n.m., (bot., med.) rhatany.
ratata, n.m., drum-beating.
ratatiné, -e, adj., shriveled, shriveled up; shrunk. Un petit vieillard —; a little withered old man.
se ratatiner, v.r., to shrink, to shrivel, to shrivel up.
*ratatouille, n.f., (cook.) bad stew (made of scraps of meat).
rate, n.f., spleen, milt. Avoir des vapeurs de —; to be troubled with the spleen. Epanouir la —; to drive away the spleen, to make merry. S’épanouir la —; to drive away one’s spleen, to be merry.
râteau, n.m., (agri.) rake, bow (of a scythe); (horl., nav.) rack.