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- English Word Range Definition Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
- English Word Range Definition A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
- English Word Range Definition In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
- English Word Range Definition See Range of cable, below.
- English Word Ranged Definition of Range
- English Word Rangement Definition Arrangement.
- English Word Ranger Definition One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
- English Word Ranger Definition That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
- English Word Ranger Definition A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
- English Word Ranger Definition One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
- English Word Ranger Definition The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
- English Word Rangership Definition The office of the keeper of a forest or park.
- English Word Ranging Definition of Range
- English Word Rangle Definition To range about in an irregular manner.
- English Word Rani Definition A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
- English Word Ranine Definition Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
- English Word Ranine Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
- English Word Rank Definition Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
- English Word Rank Definition Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
- English Word Rank Definition Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
- English Word Rank Definition Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
- English Word Rank Definition Strong to the taste.
- English Word Rank Definition Inflamed with venereal appetite.
- English Word Rank Definition Rankly; stoutly; violently.
- English Word Rank Definition A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
- English Word Rank Definition A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
- English Word Rank Definition Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
- English Word Rank Definition An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
- English Word Rank Definition Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
- English Word Rank Definition Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.