ranella

[Mod. Lat., diminutive from rana (q. v.).] Zool. & Palæont .: Frog-shell; a genus of Muricidæ. Shell with two rows of continuous varices, one on each side; operculum ovate; nucleus lateral. Fifty-eight recent species, from the Mediterranean, the Cape, India, China, Australia, the Pacific, and Western America, ranging from low water to twenty fathoms. Fo il, twenty three species, from the Eocene. *rang, a . [A. S. ranc .) (RANK, a.) Perverse, rebellious. răng, pret. of v. [RING, v.] *răn-gant, a. [Fr.] Her.: The same as FURIOSANT (q. v.). rānge, *renge, *rainge, *raunge, v. t. & i. [0. Fr. renger (Fr. ranger ), from rang =a rank.] [RANK, verb.] A. Transitive : The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia B. Intransitive: range 1. To be placed in order; to be ranked, cla ified, or cla ed; to rank; to admit of cla ification. ""Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. flow." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., ii. 3. 2. To lie in a particular direction; to lie along side or parallel; to correspond in direction. "Which way thy forests range , which way thy rivers Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 1. 3. To rove or roam at large; to wander about. "'Tis true, I am given to range." Byron: To the Sighing Strephon. 4. To run about wildly; to be wild. (Said of dogs.) "Down goes old Sport, ranging a bit wildly."-Field, March 27, 1886. 5. To sail or pa along or in the direction of. "In which coast ranging, we found no convenient watering place." -Hackluyt : Voyages, iii. 515. 6. To pa or vary from one point to another. "Readings ranged from 55° at Scilly and Jersey to 45° at Nairn."-London Daily Chronicle. 7. In gunnery, to have range or horizontal direction. (Said of shot or shell, and sometimes of a firearm.)