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Rath

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(răth)
n.1.A hill or mound.
2.A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
a.1.Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.
- Milton.
adv.1.Early; soon; betimes.
Why rise ye up so rathe?
- Chaucer.
Too rathe cut off by practice criminal.
- Spenser.


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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
Through the Looking Glass by Carroll, Lewis View in context
And these were, one and all, of that quaint, crooked, sweet, profoundly irresponsible and profoundly lovable race that fight like fiends, argue like children, reason like women, obey like men, and jest like their own goblins of the rath through rebellion, loyalty, want, woe, or war.
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