A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of
the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs,
with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.
Coming before others, or before the usual time; early. [Obs. or Poetic] Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. Milton.
Early; soon; betimes. [Obs. or Poetic] Why rise ye up so rathe Chaucer. Too rathe cut off ...