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[RANGE, v.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A rank, a row; a series of things in a line. 2. A line. "These ranges of barren mountains." -Bentley: Ser mons. 3. A cla ; an order; a cla ification. "The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences."- Hale : Orig. of Mankind. 4. A wandering, roving, or roaming; an excursion. 5. Space or room for excursion; space or extent range-finder, s. 3352 IMG:content-0200.png:[blocks in formation] "And curst be all who keep the Bens For sheep and antlered rangers only." Blackie: Lays of Highlands, p. 49. in Europe a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by 3. The keeper of a public park or forest, usually letters patent, whose busine was to walk through the forest, watch the deer, prevent trespa es, .; a government official connected with a royal forest or park. "Outlawes fell affray the forest raunger ." Spenser: Colin Clout's Come Home Again . 4. The keeper or superintendent of a public park. 5. One who roves for plunder; a robber, a high IMG:content-0201.png:[blocks in formation] rang-er-ship, s. [English ranger: -ship.] The or park. ( Eng. ) IMG:content-0202.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The horizontal distance to which a projectile is thrown. Strictly, it is the distance from the muzzle of the gun to the second intersection of the trajectory with the line of sight. A cannon lying horizontally is called the right level or point-blank range; when the muzzle is elevated to 45° it is called the utmost level. (2) A place where gun or rifle practice is carried on. "The shooting range at Wormwood Scrubs."-London Daily Times. 3. Nat. Science : The geographical limits within which an animal or plant is now distributed, and the limits in point of time within which it has existed on the globe. The first is called range in space, and the second range in time. In the case of marine animals, as the Mollusca, thers also a range of depth, as measured by the number of fathoms which constitute their superior and inferior limits. IMG:content-0203.png:[blocks in formation] răn-gi-fër, s. [Formed in the sixteenth century from Fr. ranche =a rack, ladder, and Latin fero =to bear.] 1. Zoology : Reindeer (q. v.); a genus of Cervide. "There are several varieties or species of this animal, confined to special districts, but they are not yet well determined." ( Wallace : Geog. Dist. Anim ., ii. 219). Horns with large basal snags near crown; muzzle hairy. 2. Palæont .: [See extract under Reindeer; REINDEER-PERIOD.] *răn'-gle, verb int . [A frequent. or dim in. from range, v. (q. v.)] To range or rove about. "They scaped best that here and thither rangled." Harrington: Orlando Furioso, xiv. 56. ra-nî, s. [RANEE.] răn-i-for-mi-a, subst . [Lat. rana =a frog, and form a form.] A sub-order of Amphibia , to which belong the families Radniæ and Colosthetida . ra-ni-nạ, s . [Mod. Lat., from rana =a frog.] Zool .: The typical genus of Raninidæ. rā-nine, a . [Lat.rana=a frog.] Pertaining or relating to a frog or frogs. IMG:content-0204.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0205.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A line, a row; a series of things in a line. "The rank of osiers, by the murmuring stream." Shakesp.: As You Like It , iv. 3. 2. Specif., a line or row of men ranged abreast or side by side. 3. Position, place, station. "Olotocara, which had not learned to keepe his ranke ." -Hackluyt: Voyages , iii. 358. 4. An aggregate of individuals; a cla , a series, an order. "All ranks and orders of men, being equally concerned in public ble ings." -Atterbury. 5. Degree of dignity; eminence or excellence; comparative station or position in civil, military, or social life; relative place. "The scale of intellectual rank ." Words worth: Excursion, iv. 6. Specif., a degree or grade in the military or of admiral. naval service; as, the rank of captain, the rank tinct i on, high degree; as, a man of rank. 7. High social position; eminence, excellence, dis II. Music : A row of pipes (of an organ), belonging to one stop. (1) Rank and file : The body of soldiers constituting the ma of the army. soldiers; as, to reduce a man to the ranks. (2) The ranks: The order or grade of common (3) To fill the ranks: To supply the whole number, or a competent number. cedence of; to rank before; to have the right of (4) To take rank of : To take, have, or enjoy pre taking a higher place than. with Dutch rank =lank, slender; Icelandic rakkr = adv . [A. S. ranc= strong, proud, forward; cogn. răńk, *ranck, *rancke, *ronk, *ronke, a. & straight, slender; Sw. rank long and thin; Dan. rank erect. The sense of "strong-scented" or rancid is due to confusion with Lat. rancid us (=rancid), or O. Fr. rance =musty, fusty, stale. ( Skeat .)] IMG:content-0206.png:[blocks in formation] "Rancke winter's rage." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; February . 7. Gro , coarse, foul, disgusting. stinking. 8. Foul-scented, strong-scented, rancid, musty, "Hircina, rank with sweat, presumes To censure Phillis for perfumes." Swift : Journal of a Modern Lady. 9. Strong to the taste; high-tasted. "Divers sea-fowl taste rank , of the fish on which they feed." - Boyle . *10. Lustful; inflamed with venereal pa ion. 11. Corrupt, rotten. "But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes." Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 120. *12. (See extract.) hinder pairs of legs are nearly equal in size, and flattened into four swimming organs. "The mutable, rank - scented many." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iii. 1. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0207.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0208.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0209.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To search thoroughly; to search every part of. "The history of the chosen people was ransacked for precedents." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvii. 2. To plunder, to pillage, to sack. (Shakespeare: King John , iii. 4.) *3. To violate, to ravish. "Treason were it to the ransack'd queen." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , ii. 2. 1. To search narrowly or thoroughly. *2. To pierce. 1. Release from captivity or bondage by payment. "Sent as prisoners of the war 2. The money paid for the release of a person from captivity, bondage, or slavery, or for the redemption of goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a captive or of goods captured, and restores the former to liberty and the latter to the original owner. "To whom Achilles: Be the ransom given." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xxiv. 175. 3. A price paid or offering made for procuring the pardon of sins, and the redemption of the sinner from the consequences of sin. ( Mark x. 45.) *4. Atonement, expiation. "A sufficient ransom for offense." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4. II. Feudal Law : A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense, and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punish- 1. To redeem from captivity, bondage, or slavery by the payment of money or an equivalent; to buy out of captivity, penalty, or punishment; to regain by the payment of an equivalent. "Let him be ransomed . " --Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 5. 2. To release from captivity or bondage on pay- ment of money or an equivalent. Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me." Shakesp.: Sonnet 120. IMG:content-0210.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0211.png:[blocks in formation] rantree 2. A tree chosen with two branches, which are cut short, and left somewhat in the shape of the letter Y, set close to or built into the gable of a cottage to support one end of the roof-tree. 3. A tall, rawboned person. ( Scotch .)