Rant

rant, v.i. to use extravagant language: to be noisy in words: to be noisily merry.— n. empty declamation: bombast: ( Scot. ) a frolic.— ns. Rant′er , a noisy talker: a jovial fellow: a boisterous preacher: a byname for the Primitive Methodists: a nickname applied to the members of a sect of the Commonwealth time; Rant′erism .— adv. Rant′ingly , boisterously.— adj. Rant′ipole , wild.— n. a reckle fellow. [Old Dut. ranten , to rave; Low Ger. randen , Ger. ranzen .]