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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.]

(persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

One who arranges. Burke.

The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

One who deranges.

To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.

To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [Obs.] Spenser.

reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.