Search the Dictionary

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. Gen. xli. 5.

One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke.

With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

The condition or quality of being rank.

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.

Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.

ange circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

Crankness. Lowell.

bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Full of spirit; crank.

To degrade from rank. [Obs.]

of Drink.

To place in ranks or in order. [R.] Shak.

The first rank; the front.