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The condition or quality of being rank.

A prostitute. [Obs.]

The erd shrew. [Scot.]

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South.

f captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. Dryden.

Such as can be ransomed.

One who ransoms or redeems.

Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom. Shak.

dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

In a ranting manner.

To act like a rantipole. [Low] She used to rantipole about the house. Arbuthnot.

Ranterism.

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.