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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: rangeland - ranty</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="rangeland"> rangeland, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> land for grazing; range. </DL> <A NAME="ranger"> ranger, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person employed to guard a tract of forest. Ex. Rangers also patrol roads in remote ranges towing a horse trailer so that they can take to horseback if necessary (Newsweek). <DD> 2. Also, Ranger. one of a body of armed men employed in ranging over a region to police it. Ex. ... the [Texas] Rangers, the oldest police force in the U.S. with statewide jurisdiction (Newsweek). <DD> 3. Also, Ranger. a soldier in the United States Army trained for raids and surprise attacks; commando. <DD> 4. Ranger, a member of the Girl Guides from the agesof fourteen to eighteen. <DD> 5. a person or thing that ranges; rover. <DD> 6. (British.) the official title of the keeper of a royal park or forest. </DL> <A NAME="rangeralfalfa"> ranger alfalfa,<DL COMPACT><DD> a hybrid variety of winter-hardy, wilt-resistant alfalfa with variegated flowers, grown in the northern United States. </DL> <A NAME="rangership"> rangership, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the office of ranger or keeper of a forest or park. </DL> <A NAME="ranginess"> ranginess, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being rangy. </DL> <A NAME="rangy"> rangy, adjective, rangier, rangiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. fitted for ranging or moving about. Ex. The ponies ... used for circle-riding in the morning have need to be strong and rangy (Theodore Roosevelt). <DD> 2. slender and long-limbed. Ex. a rangy horse. <DD> 3. (in Australia) mountainous. </DL> <A NAME="rani"> rani, noun. =ranee.</DL> <A NAME="rank"> rank (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a row or line, usually of soldiers, placed side by side. Ex. The Tuscan army ... Rank behind rank (Macaulay). <DD> 2. position; grade; class. Ex. He was promoted from the rank of captain to the rank of major. Los Angeles is a city of high rank. A zoo contains animals of all ranks. Coal is classified in ranks, according to the amount of heat it produces. (SYN) standing, status, station. <DD> 3. high position. Ex. Dukes and generals are men of rank. (SYN) eminence, distinction. <DD> 4. orderly arrangement or array. Ex. to break rank. <DD> 5. one of the lines of squares extending left and right across a chess- or checkerboard. At the start of a game of chess, the pieces stand on first rank, and the pawns on the second rank. <DD>v.t. 1. to put in some special order in a list; classify. Ex. Rank the states in the order of size. <DD> 2. to be more important than; outrank. Ex. A major ranks a captain. <DD> 3. to arrange in a row or line. Ex. The librarian ranked the jumbled books on the shelves. <DD>v.i. 1. to have a certain place or position in relation to other persons or things. Ex. He ranked low in the test. New York State ranks first in wealth. <DD> 2. to form a rank or ranks; stand in rank. Ex. The crowd ranked six deep along the parade route. <DD> 3. (U.S.) to be the highest in rank or standing. expr. close ranks, <DD> a. (of troops) to come into close formation. Ex. The soldiers closed ranks to stop the enemy from advancing. <DD> b. (Figurative:) Ex. Britain is closing ranks behind the President (New Yorker). expr. pull rank, (Especially U.S.) to use one's position to gain something. Ex. The young lieutenant was bossy and always pulling rank. expr. ranks, <DD> a. an army; soldiers. Ex. An advance party of 26 officers and 144 other ranks would sail from Sydney to Penang (London Times). <DD> b. =rank and file. Ex. He regarded himself as a man in the ranks, the member of an awkward squad (Graham Greene). <DD> c. formation. Ex. to open ranks. </DL> <A NAME="rank"> rank (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. large and coarse. Ex. rank grass. <DD> 2. growing thickly and in a coarse way. Ex. a rank growth of weeds. <DD> 3. producing a dense but coarse growth. Ex. a rank swamp. <DD> 4. having a strong, bad smell or taste. Ex. rank meat, rank tobacco. A rank cigar of the sort that they sell to students (Rudyard Kipling). (SYN) rancid. <DD> 5. (Figurative.) strongly marked; extreme. Ex. rank ingratitude, rank nonsense. (SYN) flagrant, absolute. <DD> 6. coarse; indecent. (SYN) obscene. <DD> 7. inferior; poor; bad. Ex. The movies have been so rank the last couple of years ... (New Yorker). <DD> 8. (Especially Law.) high or excessive in amount. adv. rankly. noun rankness. </DL> <A NAME="rankandfile"> rank and file,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. common soldiers, not officers, especially those with the rank of corporal or below; ranks. <DD> b. the people in a business, labor union, political party, or other institution or group, who are not a part of the management. Ex. Labor union structure which so often finds the leaders being flouted by the rank and file (New York Times). <DD> 2. the common people. adj. rank-and-file. </DL> <A NAME="rankandfiler"> rank and filer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the rank and file. Ex. Management and union rank and filers alike had hoped Congress would act swiftly (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="ranker"> ranker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Informal.) a person who ranks. <DD> 2. a soldier in the ranks. Ex. Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from hell to Eternity (Rudyard Kipling). <DD> 3. an officer promoted from the ranks. </DL> <A NAME="rankian"> Rankian, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a supporter of the theories of the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank, 1884-1937, especially the theory that the birth trauma is the central focus of psychoneurosis. <DD>adj. of or having to do with Rank's theories. </DL> <A NAME="rankine"> Rankine, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, based on, or according to the Rankine scale. Ex. 528 degrees Rankine. <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) R. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="rankinecycle"> Rankine cycle,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Thermodynamics.) a kind of Carnot cycle, used as a standard of thermal efficiency. It comprises the introduction of water by pump, evaporation, adiabatic expansion, and condensation. </DL> <A NAME="rankinescale"> Rankine scale,<DL COMPACT><DD> a scale in which temperatures are measured as roughly 460 degrees plus the Fahrenheit value, absolute zero being minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit. </DL> <A NAME="ranking"> ranking, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a standing. Ex. He has a poor ranking in his class. Stirling Moss, No. 2 driver in the world rankings ... (Atlantic). <DD>adj. of highest standing; leading; foremost. Ex. the ranking U.S. Senator. </DL> <A NAME="rankle"> rankle, verb, -kled, -kling.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to be sore; cause soreness; continue to give pain. Ex. The blister rankled as he walked. (Figurative.) The memory of the insult rankled in his mind. <DD>v.t. to cause pain or soreness in or to. </DL> <A NAME="ranks"> ranks, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under rank (1). </DL> <A NAME="rann"> RANN (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Research Applied to National Needs (a research program established by the United States National Science Foundation). </DL> <A NAME="ransack"> ransack, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to search thoroughly through. Ex. The thief ransacked the house for jewelry. (SYN) rummage. <DD> 2. to rob; plunder. Ex. The invading army ransacked the city and carried off its treasures. (SYN) pillage. noun ransacker. </DL> <A NAME="ransom"> ransom, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the price paid or demanded before a captive is set free. Ex. The robber chief held the travelers prisoners for ransom. <DD> 2. a ransoming; redemption, as of a prisoner, slave, or captured goods, for a price. <DD> 3. a means of delivering or rescuing, as from sin or its consequences. Ex. Even the Son of man came ... to give his life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45). <DD>v.t. 1. to obtain the release of (a captive) by paying a price. Ex. They ransomed the kidnaped child with a great sum of money. O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel (J. M. Neale). <DD> 2. to redeem or deliver, especially from sin or ignorance. Ex. Poor sick people, richer in His eyes who ransomed us ... than I (Tennyson). <DD> 3. to release upon payment. <DD> 4. to hold for ransom; demand a ransom for. noun ransomer. </DL> <A NAME="rant"> rant, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to speak wildly, extravagantly, violently, or noisily. (SYN) declaim, rave. <DD> 2. (Archaic.) <DD> a. to carouse. Ex. Wi' quaffing and laughing, They ranted and they sang (Robert Burns). <DD> b. to lead a dissolute life. <DD>noun 1a. extravagant, violent, or noisy speech. Ex. Madly enough he preached ... with imperfect utterance, amid much frothy rant (Thomas Carlyle). <DD> b. ranting words. Ex. He sometimes ... in his rants talked with Norman haughtiness of the Celtic barbarians (Macaulay). <DD> 2. (Scottish.) a noisy spree. expr. rant and rave, to speak or scold wildly and violently. Ex. Rant and rave as he might, the children blithely went on with their playing. noun ranter. adv. rantingly. </DL> <A NAME="rantipole"> rantipole, noun, adjective, verb, -poled, -poling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a rude, romping boy or girl. <DD> 2. a boisterous, wild fellow. <DD> 3. =termagant. <DD>adj. boisterous; riotous; wild. <DD>v.i. to romp rudely; act in a boisterous, wild fashion. </DL> <A NAME="ranty"> ranty, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Dialect.) <DD> 1. raving or wild, as with passion, anger, or pain. <DD> 2. lively, boisterous, or riotous. </DL> <A HREF="ranula.dic">NEXT</A>