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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant;
grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |
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Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;
as, rank heresy. |
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Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very
rich and fertile; as, rank land. |
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Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;
rank-smelling rue. |
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Strong to the taste. |
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Inflamed with venereal appetite. |
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Rankly; stoutly; violently. |
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A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of
osiers. |
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A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to
file. See 1st File, 1 (a). |
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Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or
nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social
position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. |
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To place abreast, or in a line. |
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To range in a particular class, order, or division; to
class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or
order; to classify. |
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To take rank of; to outrank. |
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To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular
degree, class, order, or division. |
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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. |