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In a rancid manner.

The quality of being rancid.

The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke.

Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.

In a rancorous manner.

To rant; to storm. [Obs.] I wept, . . . and raved, randed, and railed. J. Webster.

The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass.

The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. [Prov. Eng.]

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

Force; violence. [Obs.] For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force. E. Hall.

In a random manner.

Random. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Reindeer. [Obs.]

Same as Rani.

See Reënforce. [Obs.] Bailey.

imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line. Maccabeus ranged his army by hands. 2 Macc. xii. 20.

Arrangement. [Obs.] Waterland.

One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

The office of the keeper of a forest or park. [Eng.]