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[A. S., Ger., Dut. & Dan.=a border, an edge, a brink; Icel. rönd. ] I. Ordinary Language: *1. A border, edge, or seam. *2. A long fleshy piece of beef cut out between the flank and buttock. "They came with chopping knives, To cut into rands ." Beaum. & Flet.: Wild-goose Chase, v. 2. II. Shoemaking : 1. One of the slips beneath the heel of a sole, to bring the rounding-surface to a level ready to receive the lifts of the heel. 2. A thin inner shoe-sole. ( Simmonds .) *rănd, v . i . [Prob. a form of rant (q. v.).] Το storm, to rave, to fume, to rant. "I raved, and randed , and railed." -J. Webster. răn dăn (1), s. [Etym. doubtful.] The produce of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran of wheat.