rare

Infrequently occurring; uncommon.

Excellent; extraordinary.

Thin in density; rarefied.

Cooked just a short time so as to retain juice and redness.

Early.

Not thoroughly cooked; partly cooked; underdone: applied to meat: as, rare beef; a rare chop.

A dialectal form of rear.

An obsolete form of roar.

Thin; porous; not dense; of slight consistence; rarefied; having relatively little matter in a given volume: as, a rare substance; the rare atmosphere of high mountains.

Thinly scattered; coming or occurring at wide intervals; sparse; dispersed.