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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.






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"Rata" Quotes from Famous Books



... A written authority from a principal to another, authorizing him to act in his stead. PRICE CURRENT. A list of articles with market values. PRIMAGE. A percentage allowed to the master of a vessel on the amount of cargo carried. PRIMA FACIE. On the first look or view. PRO RATA. A proportional distribution. Latin. PROTECTING A DRAFT. Accepting a draft to prevent its being protested. PROTEST. A formal declaration by a notary that a note was not paid at maturity, or that any other monetary obligation was not met when due. RECEIVER. ...
— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun

... together. There may, or may not, be any family relationship between the partners. In some cases we learn nothing about the terms of partnership. But where we are able to discern them, they follow the natural course that profits were divided, pro rata, according to the capital contributed. More obscure is the question how far the personal exertions of each partner were pledged to the benefit of the firm. There is a suggestion that some partners were content with furnishing capital, and obtaining a fair return upon it, while ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... Rata-myth there is a very instructive series of manifestations of the dragon.[312] The first form assumed by the monster in this story was a gaping shell-fish of enormous size; then it appeared as a mighty octopus; and lastly, as a whale, into whose jaws the hero Nganaoa ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... its authority, and extending its conquests far beyond those limits to the south and the west. The mention of the Chinas in ancient Sanskrit literature, both in the laws of Manu and in the Mah[a]bh[a]rata, has often been supposed to prove the application of the name long before the predominance of the Ts'in dynasty. But the coupling of that name with the Daradas, still surviving as the people of Dardistan, on the Indus, suggests it as more probable that those Chinas were a kindred race ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

... street. So they will parade throughout the livelong day. The police will accompany them, and will see them disbanded when the evening closes in. The boxes will be emptied, the contents tabulated, and a pro rata division will be made, after which the processionists will go home and remain unemployed till the ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

... go and devote myself to coaxing the left ventricle wall to thicken pro rata—among the mountains, and to have nothing to do with any public functions or other exciting bedevilments. So the International Geological Congress will not have the pleasure of seeing its Honorary President in ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... the bolt of which apparently struck every man in the room. They sat up, took notice, and awoke to the fact that they were possibly missing something worth while. The outcome was that Mr. Payne was only able to secure his pro rata as the entire issue was promptly over subscribed by the stockholders, it being understood that the right of subscription should be confined rigidly to stockholders of record. Never in my business career have I seen ...
— The Spirit of 1906 • George W. Brooks

... pleased with the plan, and we formed a pool to buy thirty shares of stock. Thompson and I were trustees, and the certificate stood in our names; but each contributor received a pro-rata interest; Lena, one thirtieth; Judson, five-thirtieths; and the others between these extremes. The stock was bought at eighty-two. I may as well explain now how it came out, for I am not proud of my acumen at the finish. A little more ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... that point; but whether I go or stay, I shall not say another word on the subject till May—nor then, unless quite convenient to yourself. I have many things I wish to leave to your care, principally papers. The vases need not be now sent, as Mr. W. is gone to Scotland. You are right about the Er[rata] page; place it at the beginning. Mr. Perry is a little premature in his compliments [1]: these may do harm by exciting expectation, and I think we ought to be above it—though I see the next paragraph is on the 'Journal' [2], ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron

... not less than 100,000, and the markets cannot subsist 70,000. Then there is the army in the vicinity, which must be fed. I suppose the poultry and the sheep will be eaten, and something like a pro rata distribution of flour ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... the ministry, and would have sent it as a memorial to the General Conference, but for my interference. He had elaborated a plan by which every Methodist preacher should receive his salary on the pro rata basis as the superannuates do, according to the funds in hand, and according to their needs. It would be taken like any other Conference collection, turned in like any other to the treasury for this purpose. But the preacher on a mountain circuit with ...
— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

... and pleasures of human life—"Aye aye, (says a Bumpkin to his more accomplished Kinsman) Ye mun brag o' yer Lunnun fare; if smoak, smother, mud, and makeshift be the comforts and pleasures, gie me free air, health and a cottage."—Ha, ha, ha, Hark at the just-catch'd Johnny Rata, (says a bang-up Lad in a lily-shallow and upper toggery) where the devil did you come from? who let you loose upon society? d———e, you ought to be coop'd up at Exeter 'Change among the wild beasts, the Kangaroos and ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... the end of my list of military anecdotes. I have just spoken of a general's promotion, and will close with the story of a simple drummer, but a drummer renowned throughout the army as a perfect buffoon, in fact, the famous Rata, to whom General Gros, as we shall ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant

... of oversubscription, allotment will be made pro rata. The right is reserved, however, ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson



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