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Rata  n.  (Bot.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rata" Quotes from Famous Books



... profeto. Propinquity proksimeco. Propitiate favorigi, trankviligi. Propitious favora. Proportional proporcia. Proposal propono. Propose proponi. Proposition propono. Proposition (gram.) propozicio. Proprietor posedanto. Propriety konveneco. Pro rata proporcie. Prorogue prokrasti. Prosaic proza. Proscribe ekzili. Prose prozo, prosajxo. Prosecute persekuti. Proselyte prozelito. Prospect vidajxo. Prospective antauxvida, estonta. Prospectus prospekto. Prosper prosperi. Prosperity prospereco. Prosperous ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... and the undertakers the other; and it does not appear that the prince receives any established royalty. The hill people affect a kind of independence or equality which they express by the term of sama rata. ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... prafuturum, si diplomate nostro munitus, beneuolenentiae nostrae et profectionis hinc suae testimonium ad vos deferret. Nam cum summus ille mundi conditor rectorque praepotens Deus, regibus principibusque qui suam vicem gerunt, orbem terrarum, suis cuique finibus pro rata portione designatis, regendum atque administrandum dederit; eoque munere ius quoddam inter eos fraternae necessitudinis, aeternumque foedus ab illis colendum sanxerit: non erit (vt arbitramur) ingratum vobis, cum beneuolentiae nostrae significationem, tam immensa maris ac terrarum spatia transgressam, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt

... whom I shall name in detail. They were Dhara, Dhruva, Soma, Aha, Anila, Anala, Pratyusha, and Prabhasa. These eight are known as the Vasus. Of these, Dhara and the truth-knowing Dhruva were born of Dhumra; Chandramas (Soma) and Swasana (Anila) were born of the intelligent Swasa; Aha was the son of Rata; and Hutasana (Anala) of Sandilya; and Pratyusha and Prabhasa were the sons of Prabhata. And Dhara had two sons, Dravina and Huta-havya-vaha. And the son of Dhruva is the illustrious Kala (Time), the destroyer of the worlds. And Soma's son is the resplendent Varchas. ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - Translated into English Prose - Adi Parva (First Parva, or First Book) • Kisari Mohan Ganguli (Translator)

... authorized to call from the Stockholders a sum not exceeding $150,000 pro rata. for the completion of the 15 miles of Road named in the foregoing resolution, in such proportion and at such times as the exigencies of the Company may require, and that they are not authorized to extend their expenditures beyond ...
— A Pioneer Railway of the West • Maude Ward Lafferty

... be held in trust until his decision had been reached and their final disposition effected. If Lester refused to marry Jennie, or to leave her, he was to have nothing at all after the three years were up. At Lester's death the stock on which his interest was drawn was to be divided pro rata among the surviving members of the family. If any heir or assign contested the will, his or her share was thereby ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

... dragged for two hours. Before leaving, everything at the station was burned or destroyed, including nine large row-boats. For the raising of this flag I was later awarded, through the New York 'Herald,' a prize of one hundred dollars, which was divided pro rata by me among the men who accompanied me ...
— Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain • Prescott Holmes

... your present cash balance can liquidate, make a pro rata payment all around among your creditors. Write a good square letter saying nothing would please you more than to send a check in full, and that this payment is made as evidence of your willingness and ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter

... The Mahbhrata says, He who does not commit sin in mind, speech, action, or understanding, performs austerities; not he who drieth up ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... after this fashion: 'On and after, let us say, August 1st proximo, the process of the creation shall be held, and is hereby held, to be such and such only as is acceptable to a majority of the holders of common and preferred stock voting pro rata.' ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... house, the doors and windows of which at once vanished, the whole taking the form and appearance of an isolated boulder." Amongst the Maories also we have "te tini ote hakuturi," or "the multitude of the wood-elves," the little people who put the chips all back into the tree Rata had felled and stood it up again, because he had not paid tribute ...
— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson

... "lancewoods," with their hair-like tufts, the tropic strangeness of nikau palms, crested cabbage-trees, red birch and white ti-tree, stately kauri, splendid totara, bulky rimu, dark glossy koraka, spreading rata, and half the arboreal ...
— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay



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