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That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

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

One who arranges. Burke.

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

One who deranges.

One who estranges.

A farm steward. [Obs.]

Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.

The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions. Shak.

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

ect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

fluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]