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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.

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

Amaranth, 1. [Obs.] Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Same as Amaranth.

preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.

equence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay.