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t. Same as reinforce. Bailey. rang1 (rang). Preterit of ring2. rang2t, n. and v. An old form of rank2. range (rānj), v.; pret. and pp. ranged, ppr. ranging. [Early mod. E. also raunge; Than two of hem renged hem, and priked after the me agers as faste as the horse myght hem bere. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 127. They had raunged their ships broad in a front ranke. Holland , tr. of Livy, p. 957. For all the Etruscan armies Were ranged beneath his eye. Macaulay , Horatius. 2. To rank or cla ; place or reckon as being of or belonging to some cla , category, party, etc.; fix the relative place or standing of; cla ify; collocate. The late Emperour August us all the world raungeth in this ranke of men fortunate. Holland , tr. of Pliny, vii. 45. So they ranged all their youth under some family, and set upon such a course, which had good succe , for it made all hands very industrious. N. Morton , New England's Memorial, p. 93. The great majority of the Indians, if they took part in the war, ranged themselves on the side of the Crown. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. Among those inhabitants of the Roman dominion who were personally free, there were four cla es, ranged in an ascending scale-provincials, Italians, Latins, Romans. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 320. 3t. To rank or reckon; consider; count. The Æthiops were as fair As other dames; now black with black despair: And in respect of their complexions changed, Are eachwhere since for luckle creatures ranged . B. Jonson , Masque of Blackne . 4+. To engage; occupy. That, of all other, was the most fatal and dangerous exploit that ever I was ranged in. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, iii. 1. 5. To pa over or through the line, course, or extent of; go along or about, especially for some definite purpose; rove over or along: as, to range the forest for game or for poachers; to range a river or the coast in a boat. I found this credit, That he did range the town to seek me out. Shak ., T. N., iv. 3. 7. IMG:content-1616.png:[blocks in formation] They made a decree, and tooke order that no corne maisters that bought and sold grain should beat this mule away from their raunging sives. Holland, tr. of Pliny, viii. 44. II. in trans. 1. To constitute or be parallel to a line or row; have linear course or direction; be in or form a line: as, a boundary ranging east and west; houses ranging evenly with the street. Than the i rode forth and renged close that wey where as the childeren foughten full sore, ffor the Saisnes were mo than vijml in a flote. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 198. Direct my course so right as with thy hand to show Which way thy forests range . Drayton, Polyolbion, i 14. The stones are of the same thickne as the walls, and the pilasters have no capitals; there is a cornish below that ranges round, which might belong to a basement. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 135. 2. To be on a level; agree in cla or position; have equal rank or place; rank correspondingly. 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 20. This was cast upon the board, When all the full-faced presence of the Gods Ranged in the halls of Peleus. Tennyson, Enone. 3. To go in a line or course; hence, to rove freely; pa from point to point; make a course or tour; roam; wander. Putten ham , Par them a des, xiii. The Gaules from the Albane Glimmes raunged all over the champion and the sea coaste, and wasted the countrie. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 265. How wild his [man's] thoughts! how apt to range ! How apt to vary! apt to change! Quarles , Emblems, iv. 5. 4. To move in a definite manner, as for start- ing game; beat about; of dogs, to run within the proper range. All shrank - like boys who, unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. marking degrees of change); the range of a singer or of a musical instrument. Range in shooting is the horizontal distance to which a projectile is or may be thrown by a gun or other arm under existing conditions: distinguished from trajectory , or the curvilin- ear distance traversed by the projectile when the arm is elevated out of a horizontal line. The effective range de- pends upon the amount or the absence of elevation and the consequent trajectory. (Compare point - blank .) To get the range of a point to be fired at is to ascertain, either by calculation or by experiment, or by both, the degree of elevation for the muzzle of the piece nece ary to bring the shot to bear upon it. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. Her warbling voice, a lyre of widest range , Struck by all pa ion, did fall down and glance From tone to tone. Tennyson , Fair Women. No obstacle was encountered until the gunboats and transports were within range of the fort. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 439. The proposal [advocating cremation] was not to be re- garded as coming within the range of a practical policy. Nineteenth Century , XXIII. 2. 13. A bolting-sieve for meal. Cotgrave ; Halli- well . [Old and prov. Eng.]-Battle-range. See battle1.Broken-range stonework, range stonework in which thicker or thinner stones are occasionally inserted, thus breaking the uniformity. Compare random stonework , under random . - Constituent of a range. See constitu- ent.-Double-oven range, a range which has two ovens, one on each side of the fire-pot. Point-blank range. See point - blank . - Random-range ashler. See ashler3 . -Range curve. See curve. - Range stonework, ma- sonry laid in courses. The courses may vary in height, but in each a level joint is preserved. - Single-oven range, a range having but one oven, usually at one side of the fire-pot: in contradistinction to double - oven range . -To get the range of anything, to find by experiment and calculation the exact angle of elevation of the gun, the amount of charge, etc., nece ary to throw projectiles so as to strike the object aimed at. Syn. 1. Line, tier, file.4. Sweep, reach. rangé (ron-zhā'), n . [F., pp. of ranger , range, order: see range , v .] In her ., arranged in order: said of small bearings set in a row fe e- wise, or the like. The epithet is not often needed: thus, "six mullets in bend or bendwise" is sufficient with- out the use of the expre ion " rangé in bend." 5. Unobstructed distance or interval from one point or object to another; length of course for free direct ranging thr through the air, as of a mis- sile or of sight; a right line of aim or of obserrange-finder (ranj'finder), n . vation, absolute or relative: as, the range is too great for effective firing; the range of vision.- 6. The act of ranging; a wandering or roving; movement from point to point in space. IMG:content-1617.png:[blocks in formation] The free bison's amplitude of range . Whittier , The Panorama, Specifically-(a) A tract or district of land within which domestic animals in large numbers range for subsistence; an extensive grazing-ground: used on the great plains of the United States for a tract commonly of many square miles, occupied by one or by different proprietors, and distinctively called a cattle , stock , or sheep - range . The animals on a range are usually left to take care of them selves during the whole year without shelter, excepting when periodically gathered in a "round-up" for counting and selection, and for branding when the herds of several proprietors run together. In severe winters many are lost Coryat, Crudities, I. 192. Altogether this arcade only makes us wish for more, for a longer range from the same hand. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 247. He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders. Sir R. L'Estrange. ( Latham .) 9. A cooking-stove built into a fireplace, or sometimes portable but of a similar shape, hav- ing a row or rows of openings on the top for carrying on several operations at once. Fixed ranges usually have two ovens, either on each side of the fire-chamber or above it at the back, and in houses sup- plied with running water a hot-water reservoir or perm a- nent boiler. The origin of the modern cooking-range may be sought in the furnaces of masonry of the ancient Ro- mans, arranged to receive cooking-utensils on the top. Throughout the middle ages only open-chimney fires were used, until in France, in the course of the fourteenth cen- tury, built furnaces with openings above for pots began to be added in great kitchens, for convenience in preparing the soups and sauces then in greater favor than before. The range in the modern sense, involving the application of heat conducted by and reflected from iron plates, was first advanced and practically improved by Count Rumford. It [the kitchen] was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence, With many raunges reard along the wall, And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence The smoke forth threw. Every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down. Lev. xi. 35. And so home, where I found all clean, and the hearth and range , as it is now enlarged, both up. Pepys , Diary, May 25, 1661. 10. A step of a ladder; a round; a rung. [Ob- solete or local.] ger ; range + -er1. Cf. F. rangeur , one who arranges.] 1. One who ranges, or roams, or roves about; especially, one engaged in rang- ing or going about for some specific purpose, as search or ward. O where are all my rangers bold, That I pay meat and fee To search the forest far an' wide? Specifically - 2. In England, formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose busine it was to walk through the forest, watch the deer, prevent trespa es, etc.; now, merely a government official connect- ed with a royal forest or park. They [wolves] walke not widely as they were wont, For feare of raungers and the great hunt. 8. A kind of seal, probably the young bay- seal. [Newfoundland.] - Partizan ranger. partizan i . range rine (ran'jėr-in), a . Same as rangi ferine . Rangifer tar and us (Gray), the name usually given to the Old World species of range rine deer, of which the American woodland and barren ground caribou are be- lieved to be mere varieties. Amer. Cyc., XIV. 265. rangership rangership (rān'jer-ship), п. [ range-stove (rānj's tov), n. A cooking-stove made like a range; a portable range. range-table (rānj'tā"bl), п. A table for a particular firearm containing the range and the time of flight for every elevation, charge of powder, and kind of projectile. Rangia (ran'ji-ä), n. [NL., named after Rang, a French conchologist.] 1. In conch., the typ ical genus of Rangiidæ. The R. cyrenoides is common in the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. Also called Gnathodon. Des Moulins, 1832. 2. In Actinozoa, a genus of ctenophorous acalephs, ranking as the type of a family. Aga iz, 1860. Rangifer (ran'ji-fer), n. [NL. (Hamilton Smith), perhaps accom. = OSw. ren, reindeer), + L. fer a, a wild beast.] A genus of Cervidæ, containing arctic and subarctic species with large irregularly branching horns in both sexes, the brow-antler of which is highly developed, usually unsymmetrical, and more or le palmate, and very broad spreading hoofs; the reindeer. See cuts under reindeer and caribou. rangi ferine (ran-jif'e-rin), a. [ 2. A family of eurystomatous ctenophorans, represented by the genus Rangia. It was based on an African species, and characterized by the deep indentation between the rows of locomotive flappers and a tentacle projecting from the angle of each indentation. ranging-rod (rān jing-rod), n. A surveyors' rod or pole. Rangoon creeper. See Quisqualis. Rangoon tar. See tar . rangy (rān'ji), 4956 being known. See frog1, and cuts under omosternum and Ranal. raniform (ran'i-fôrm), a. [ rank Willie mourns o'er her in vain, And to his mother he has gane, That vile rank witch, o' vilest kind! Willie's Ladye (Child's Ballads, I. 163). Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 4. 148. Run, run, ye rogues, ye precious rogues, ye rank rogues! Fletcher , Bonduc a, iv. 2. Add is on, The Man of the Town. Rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. What are these but rank pedants? 3. Strong in growth; growing with vigor or ra IMG:content-1618.png:[blocks in formation] the family Ranidæ.