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imp. of Run.

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants. Ranal alliance (Bot.), a name proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.

A prop or shore. [Scot.]

Becoming rancid or sour.

A tract of land used for grazing and rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]

A dwelling place of a ranchero.

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. Ure.

In a rancid manner.

The quality of being rancid.

he 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.]