Randon (v. i.) To go or stray at random.
Ranedeer (n.) See Reindeer.
Ranee (n.) Same as Rani.
Ranforce (n.) See Re/nforce.
Rang () imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.
Ranged (imp. & p. p.) of Range
Ranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range
Range (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Range (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Range (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
Range (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
Range (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Range (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Range (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Range (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Range (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
Range (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Range (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
Range (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
Range (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Range (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
Range (v.) A kitchen grate.
Range (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Range (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Range (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
Range (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Range (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
Range (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
Range (v.) See Range of cable, below.
Rangement (n.) Arrangement.
Ranger (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Ranger (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
Rangership (n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park.
Rangle (v. i.) To range about in an irregular manner.
Rani (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
Ranine (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
Rank (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
Rank (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
Rank (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
Rank (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
Rank (superl.) Strong to the taste.
Rank (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
Rank (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
Rank (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
Rank (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
Rank (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
Rank (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
Rank (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
Rank (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
Ranked (imp. & p. p.) of Rank
Ranking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank
Rank (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
Rank (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
Rank (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
Rank (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
Rank (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
Ranker (n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.
Rankled (imp. & p. p.) of Rankle
Rankling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle
Rankle (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
Rankle (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
Rankly (adv.) With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
Rankness (n.) The condition or quality of being rank.
Rannel (n.) A prostitute.
Ranny (n.) The erd shrew.
Ransacked (imp. & p. p.) of Ransack
Ransacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack
Ransack (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
Ransack (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
Ransack (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
Ransack (v. i.) To make a thorough search.
Ransack (n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ransom
Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom
Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
Ransom (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.
Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.
Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Ranted (imp. & p. p.) of Rant
Ranting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant
Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Ranter (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
Ranter (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Ranterism (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.