Rude mechanicals that rare and late
Work in the market place. Chapman.

New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. Dryden.

* This word is in common use in the United States, but in England its synonym underdone is preferred.

Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. Cowley.

Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. Dryden.

Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. Milton.

Water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer, than gold. Sir I. Newton.

Syn. -- Scarce; infrequent; unusual; uncommon; singular; extraordinary; incomparable. -- Rare, Scarce. We call a thing rare when but few examples, specimens, or instances of it are ever to be met with; as, a rare plant. We speak of a thing as scarce, which, though usually abundant, is for the time being to be had only in diminished quantities; as, a bad harvest makes corn scarce.

A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world. Burke.

When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor. Addison.