Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 8
Randon (v. i.) To go or stray at
random. [Obs.]
Ranedeer (n.) See Reindeer. [Obs.]
Compare: Reindeer
Reindeer (n.) (Zool.) 【動】馴鹿 [C] Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.
Note: The common European species ({Rangifer tarandus) is domesticated in Lapland. The woodland reindeer or caribou ({Rangifer caribou) is found in Canada and Maine (see Caribou.) The Barren Ground reindeer or caribou ({Rangifer Groenlandicus), of smaller size, is found on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in both hemispheries.
Reindeer moss (Bot.), A gray branching lichen ({Cladonia rangiferina) which forms extensive patches on the ground in arctic and even in north temperature regions. It is the principal food of the Lapland reindeer in winter.
Reindeer period (Geol.), A name sometimes given to a part of the Paleolithic era when the reindeer was common over Central Europe.
Reindeer (n.) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America [syn: caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus].
Ranee (n.) Same as Rani.
Ranforce (n.) See Re["e]nforce. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Rang () imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.
Ranged (imp. & p. p.) of Range.
Ranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range.
Range (v. t.) 排列；使並列；把…分類；把（槍砲等）對準 [(ON)]；漫遊於；放牧 To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Range (v. t.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Range (v. t.) To separate into parts; to sift.
Range (v. t.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
Range (v. t.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Range (v. t.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Range (v. t.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Range (v. i.) 排列；使並列；把…分類；把（槍砲等）對準 [(+on)] ；漫遊於；放牧 To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Range (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
Range (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Range (v. i.) To be native to,
or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from
Range (n.) 一系列 [C]；山脈 [C]；幅度；射程 ；級別；生長區；靶場；放牧地 [C]；多爐爐灶 [C]；閒蕩 A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
Range (n.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Range (n.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
Range (n.) A kitchen grate.
Range (n.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
Range (n.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Range (n.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Range (n.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
Range (n.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Range (n.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Range (n.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
Range (n.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
Range (n.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
Range (n.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
Range (n.) See Range of cable, below.
Rangefinder (n.) 測距儀 A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, in a process called ranging.
Rangement (n.) Arrangement.
Ranger (n.) 守林人，騎警，徘徊者 One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Ranger (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
Rangership (n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park.
Rangle (v. i.) To range about in an irregular manner.
Rani (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
Ranine (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
Rank (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.]
That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell. -- Fairfax.
Rank (n.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
Many a mountain nigh Rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still. -- Byron.
Rank (n.) (Mil.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war. -- Shak.
Rank (n.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
Rank (n.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
Rank (n.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
These all are virtues of a meaner rank. -- Addison.
Rank (n.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
Rank and file. (Mil.) The whole body of common soldiers, including also corporals. In a more extended sense, it includes sergeants also, excepting the noncommissioned staff.
Rank (a.) 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.
Rank (a.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. "Rank nonsense." -- Hare. "I do forgive thy rankest fault." -- Shak.
Rank (a.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. -- Mortimer.
Rank (a.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. -- Spenser.
Rank (a.) Strong to the taste. "Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed." -- Boyle.
Rank (a.) Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Rank modus (Law), An excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3.
To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) Rank, to set so as to take off a thick shaving. -- Moxon.
Rank (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
Let that one article rank with the rest. -- Shak.
Rank (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
Ranked (imp. & p. p.) of Rank.
Ranking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank.
Rank (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
Rank (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
Ranking all things under general and special heads. -- I. Watts.
Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers. -- Broome.
Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. -- Dr. H. More.
Rank (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank. [U.S.]
Rank (a.) Very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth".
Rank (a.) Very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar".
Rank (a.) Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank].
Rank (a.) Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)].
Rank (a.) Growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation".
Rank (n.) A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen".
Rank (n.) Relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority".
Rank (n.) The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the unionrank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel" [syn: rank and file, rank].
Rank (n.) Position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are" [syn: social station, social status, social rank, rank].
Rank (n.) The body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" [syn: membership, rank].
Rank (v.) Take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World".
Rank (v.) Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place].
Rank (v.) Take precedence or surpass others in rank [syn: rank, outrank].
Rank (n.) Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
He held at court a rank so high
That other noblemen asked why.
"Because," 'twas answered, "others lack
His skill to scratch the royal back." Aramis Jukes
Ranker (n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.
Rankled (imp. & p. p.) of Rankle.
Rankling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle.
Rankle (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
Rankle (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
Rankle (v.) Rankled, Rankling. To cause (someone) to feel angry or irritated especially for a long time.
Rankle (v. i.) To cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness.
Rankle (v. i.) To feel anger and irritation.
Rankle (v. t.) To cause irritation or bitterness in.
Rankly (adv.) With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
Rankness (n.) The condition or quality of being rank.
Rannel (n.) A prostitute.
Ranny (n.) The erd shrew.
Ransacked (imp. & p. p.) of Ransack.
Ransacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack.
Ransack (v. t.) 徹底搜索，仔細搜查；洗劫，搶劫，掠奪 To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. -- South.
Ransack (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
Their vow is made To ransack Troy. -- Shak.
Ransack (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]
Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. -- Spenser.
Ransack (v. i.) To make a thorough search.
To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. -- Chaucer.
Ransack (n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.]
Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack. -- J. Webster.
Ransack (v.) Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray].
Ransack (v.) Search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: comb, ransack].
Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. -- Dryden.
Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems. -- Milton.
His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty. -- Sir J. Davies.
Ransom (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. --Blackstone.
Ransom bill (Law), A war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port. -- Kent.
Ransom (n.) Money demanded for the return of a captured person [syn: ransom, ransom money].
Ransom (n.) Payment for the release of someone.
Ransom (n.) The act of freeing from captivity or punishment.
Ransom (v.) Exchange or buy back for money; under threat [syn: ransom, redeem].
Ransom, () The price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man "gave his life a ransom for many" (Matt. 20:28; comp. Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:23, 24; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5: Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:6; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19. In all these passages the same idea is expressed). This word is derived from the Fr. rancon; Lat. redemptio. The debt is represented not as cancelled but as fully paid. The slave or captive is not liberated by a mere gratuitous favour, but a ransom price has been paid, in consideration of which he is set free. The original owner receives back his alienated and lost possession because he has bought it back "with a price." This price or ransom (Gr. lutron) is always said to be Christ, his blood, his death. He secures our redemption by the payment of a ransom. (See REDEMPTION.)
RANSOM, contracts, war. An agreement made between the commander of a capturing vessel with the commander of a vanquished vessel, at sea, by which the former permits the latter to depart with his vessel, and gives him a safe conduct, in consideration of a sum of money, which the commander of the vanquished vessel, in his own name, and in the name of the owners of his vessel and cargo, promises to pay at a future time named, to the other.
RANSOM, This contract is usually made in writing in duplicate, one of which is kept by the vanquished vessel which is its safe conduct; and the other by the conquering vessel, which is properly called ransom bill.
RANSOM, This contract, when made in good faith, and not locally prohibited, is valid, and may be enforced. Such contracts have never been prohibited in this country. 1 Kent, Com. 105. In England they are generally forbidden. Chit. Law of Nat. 90 91; Poth. Tr. du Dr. de Propr. n. 127. Vide 2 Bro. Civ. Law, 260; Wesk. 435; 7 Com. Dig. 201; Marsh. Ins. 431; 2 Dall. 15; 15 John. 6; 3 Burr. 1734. The money paid for the redemption of such property is also called the ransom.
RANSOM, (n.) The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.
Ransom -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 5890
Housing Units (2000): 2604
Land area (2000): 862.747134 sq. miles (2234.504725 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.381735 sq. miles (3.578678 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 864.128869 sq. miles (2238.083403 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.478135 N, 97.668528 W
Headwords:
Ransom
Ransom, ND
Ransom County
Ransom County, ND
Ransom, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 409
Housing Units (2000): 159
Land area (2000): 0.991359 sq. miles (2.567608 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.991359 sq. miles (2.567608 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62757
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.155955 N, 88.653178 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60470
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ransom, IL
Ransom
Ransom, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 338
Housing Units (2000): 179
Land area (2000): 0.326169 sq. miles (0.844774 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.326169 sq. miles (0.844774 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58500
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.635344 N, 99.932434 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67572
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ransom, KS
Ransom
Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ransom.
Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom.
Ransom (v. t.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
Ransom (v. t.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. [R.]
Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. -- Berners.
Ransom (n.) [ C or U ] 贖金 A large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal.
// A ransom demand/note.
// They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped.
// The gang held the racehorse to/for ransom.
Idiom:
Hold sb to ransom (UK) (US Hold sb ransom) 要挾（某人）；脅迫（某人） To force someone to do something by putting that person in a situation where they have no choice.
// He claimed his country was being held to ransom by threats of withdrawing aid.
Ransom (v.) [ T ] （付錢）贖（人），贖出，贖回 To pay money in order to set someone free.
// Her father ransomed her for a million dollars.
Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.
Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.
Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Ransomware (n.) 勒索病毒 Is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system's screen or by locking the users' files unless a ransom is paid. More modern ransomware families, collectively categorized as crypto-ransomware, encrypt certain file types on infected systems and forces users to pay the ransom through certain online payment methods to get a decrypt key.
Ranted (imp. & p. p.) of Rant.
Ranting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant.
Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Ranter (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
Ranter (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Ranterism (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.