| Rank |
superl. |
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |
| Rank |
superl. |
Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. |
| Rank |
superl. |
Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. |
| Rank |
superl. |
Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. |
| Rank |
superl. |
Strong to the taste. |
| Rank |
superl. |
Inflamed with venereal appetite. |
| Rank |
adv. |
Rankly; stoutly; violently. |
| Rank |
n. & v. |
A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. |
| Rank |
n. & v. |
A line of soldiers ranged side by side;
opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). |
| Rank |
n. & v. |
Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. |
| Rank |
n. & v. |
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. & v. |
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. |
| Rank |
n. & v. |
Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man 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. |
| Rank |
v. t. |
To take rank of; to outrank. |
| Rank |
v. i. |
To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. |
| 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 |
| Ranker |
n. |
One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges. |
| Ranking |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Rank |
| 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. |
| Rankled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Rankle |
| Rankling |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Rankle |
| Rankly |
adv. |
With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly. |
| Rankness |
n. |
The condition or quality of being rank. |
