range 
Let reason range beyonde his crcede. 
Putteithaiu. i'artheniailes, xiii. 
The Gaules from the Alhane Gliimes . . . raunged all 
over the champion and the sea coaste, and wasted the 
countrie. llolland, tr. of l.ivy, p. 265. 
How wild his [man's] thoughts ! how apt to raivjr .' 
How apt to vary ! apt to change ! 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 5. 
Watch him, for he ranges swift and far. 
Jf. Arnold, Empedocles on Etna. 
4. To move in a definite manner, as for start- 
ing game ; beat about ; of dogs, to run within 
the proper range. 
All shrank like boys who, unaware, 
Ranging the woods to start a hare. 
Come to the mouth of the dark lair 
Where, growling low, a fierce old bear 
Lies amidst bones and blood. 
Maeaulay, Horatius. 
Next comes the teaching to range, which is about the 
moat difficult part of breaking. 
Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. 226. 
Down goes old Sport, ranging a bit wildly. 
The Field (London), March 27, 1886. (Encyc. Diet.) 
5. To have course or direction; extend in 
movement or location; pass; vary; stretch; 
spread: as, prices range between wide limits; 
the plant ranges from Canada to Mexico. 
Man ranges over the whole earth, and exists under the 
most varied conditions. 
A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 226. 
In temperate climates, toward the higher latitudes, the 
quicksilver ranges, or rises and falls, nearly three inches. 
Fitz Roy, Weather Book, p. 13. 
The Cyprinoids also afford an instance of an Indian 
species ranging into Africa. Encyc. Brit., XII. 673. 
6. In gun., to have range : said of a missile, and 
denoting length of range and also direction: 
as, that shot ranged too far, or too much to the 
right: rarely, of the gun itself To range by, 
to sail by; pass ahead of, as a vessel. =Syn. 3. Roam, 
Rove, etc. See ramble, v. 
range (rauj), . [Early mod. E. also raunge; < 
late ME. range, reenge, order,range, row (cf . OF. 
rangie, P. rangee, range, row, etc.); < range, v. 
The noun prob. in part involves ME. reng, pi. 
renges, ringes, rank, series, row : see rank 2 . Cf. 
also (in def. 10) rung 1 *.] 1. A line or row (usu- 
ally straight or nearly straight) ; a linear series ; 
a regular sequence; a rank; a chain: used es- 
pecially of large objects permanently fixed or 
lying in direct succession to one another, as 
mountains, trees, buildings, columns, etc. 
Ther be iiij rowes orRangesot pylers thorow the Chirche. 
Tortington, Diarie of Bug. Travel], p. 47. 
There is a long row or range of buildings. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 192. 
Altogether this arcade only makes us wish for more, for 
a longer range from the same hand. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 247. 
A row of Corinthian columns, standing on brackets, once 
supported the archivolts of a range of niches. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 367. 
Specifically (a) A line or chain of mountains; a cordil- 
lera: as, to skirt the range; to cross the ranges. [In 
mountainous regions, as parts of Australia and America, 
this specific use is common.] (6) In United States sur- 
veys of public land, one of a series of divisions numbered 
east or west from the prime meridian of the survey, con- 
sisting of townships which are numbered north or south 
in every division from a base-line. See township, (c) In 
geom., a series of points lying in one straight line. 
2. A rank, class, or order; a series of beings 
or things belonging to the same grade or hav- 
ing like characteristics. [Rare.] 
The next range of beings above him are the immaterial 
intelligences. Sir M. Hale. 
3. The extent of any aggregate, congeries, or 
complex, material or imrfiaterial; array of 
things or sequences of a specific kind; scope; 
compass: as, the range of industries in a coun- 
try; the whole range of events or of history; 
the range of prices or of operations ; the range 
of one's thoughts or learning. 
The range and compass of his [Hammond's] knowledge 
filled the whole circle of the arts. 
Up. Fell, Hammond, p. 9!). 
A man has not enough range of thought to look out for 
any good which does not relate to his own interest. 
Addison. 
When I briefly speak of the Greek school of art with ref- 
erence to questions of delineation, I mean the entire range 
of the schools from Homer's days to our own. 
Rwkin, Aratra Pentelici, p. 157. 
In the range of historical geography, the most curious 
feature is the way in which certain political names have 
kept on an abiding life in this region, though with singu- 
lar changes of meaning. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 4. 
4. Extent of operating force or activity; scope 
or compass of efficient action; space or distance 
over or through which energy can be exerted; 
limit of effect or of capability ; extent of reach : 
as, the rinii/i- of a iin or a shot; the range of a 
thermometer or a barometer (the extent of its 
variation in any period, or of its capacity for 
marking degrees of change); the range of a 
sinner or of a musical instrument. Range in 
shunting is the horizontal distance to which a projectile 
is or may be thrown by a gun or other arm under existing 
conditions : distinguished from trajectory, or the curvilin- 
ear distance traversed by the projectile when the arm is 
elevated out of a horizontal line. The effective range de- 
pends upon the amount or the absence of elevation and 
the consequent trajectory. (Compare point-blank.) To get 
the range of a point to be fired at is to ascertain, either 
by calculation or by experiment, or by both, the degree of 
elevation for the muzzle of the piece necessary to bring 
the shot to bear upon it. 
Far as creation's ample range extends, 
The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 207. 
Her warbling voice, a lyre of widest range, 
Struck by all passion, did fall down and glance 
From tone to tone. Tennyson, Fair Women. 
No obstacle was encountered until the gunboats and 
transports -were within range of the fort. 
U. S. (Jrant, Personal Memoirs, I. 439. , 
The proposal [advocating cremation] was not to be re- ^<inge ( 
garded as coming within the range of a practical policy. order : 
Nineteenth Century, XXIII. 2. 
5. Unobstructed distance or interval from one 
point or object to another ; length of course for 
free direct ranging through the air, as of a mis- 
sile or of sight ; a right line of aim or of obser- 
rangerine 
The butt is first cut into long strips known as 
of varying width according to the purposes for whieli 1 1 - 
quired. {,', Diet., IV. 110. 
13. A bolting-sieve for meal. Cutgrace; ffalli- 
ir<-ll. [Old and prov. Eng.]- Battle-range. See 
battle^ .Broken-range stonework, i-aime stonework in 
which thicker or thinner stones are occasionally inserted, 
thusbreakingtheuniformity. Compare random rtmwvorfr, 
under random. Constituent of a range. See ciiuxiitn- 
ent. Double-oven range, a range which has two ovens, 
one on each side of the tire-pot. Point-blank range. 
See point-blank. Random-range ashler. See asMer'-t. 
Range curve. See curve. Range stonework, ma- 
sonry laid in courses. The courses may vary in height, 
but in each a level joint is preserved. Single-oven 
range, a range having but one oven, usually at one side 
of the fire-pot; in contradistinction to double-oven ratine. 
To get the range of anything, to find by experiment 
and calculation the exact angle of elevation of the gun, 
the amount of charge, etc., necessary to throw projectiles 
so as to strike the object aimed at. =Syn. 1. Line, tier, 
file. 4. Sweep, reach. 
' on-zha'), [F., pp. of ranger, range, 
see range, v.~\ In her., arranged in 
order : said of small bearings set in a row fesse- 
wise, or the like. The epithet is not often needed: 
thus, " six mullets in bend or bendwise " is sufficient with- 
bend." 
One of various 
kilds of illstr m en ts for ascertaining by sight 
vation absolute or relative: as, the range is too the rai of an object from the po t nt / o f ob- 
great for effective firing ; the range of vision. servation 
6. The act of ranging; a wandering or roving; range-heads (ranj'hedz),,.p7. Naut., the wind- 
movement from point to point in space. lass-bitts 
He may take a ra^e all the world over. South, range-lights (ranj'lits), n.pl. 1. Two or more 
7. An area or course of ranging, either in space lights, generally in lighthouses, so placed that 
or in time ; an expanse for movement or exis- when kept in line a fair course can be made 
tence; the region, sphere, or space over which through a channel: where two channels meet, 
any being or thing ranges or is distributed : as, the bringing of two range-lights into line serves 
the range of an animal or a plant within geo- to mark the turning-point into the new channel, 
graphical limits or during geological time, or 2. Lights placed aboard ship at a consider- 
of a marine animal in depth ; the range of able horizontal distance from each other, and 
ftnthif MMfeu>*m<> tiio /> f o *,>= ir,fl,, j n the same vertical plane with the keel. They 
are used to give a better indication of changes of course 
to approaching vessels than is afforded by the ordinary 
side and steaming lights. 
Gothic architecture ; the range of a man's influ- 
ence. 
The free bison's amplitude of range. 
Whittier, The Panorama. 
Specifically (a) A tract or district of land within which fangementt (ranj'ment), . [< OF. rmigement, 
domestic animals in large numbers range for subsistence ; < renger, ranger, range : see range, !).] The act 
of ranging; arrangement. 
an extensive grazing-ground : used on the great plains of 
the United States for a tract commonly of many square 
miles, occupied by one or by different proprietors, and 
distinctively called a cattle-, stock-, or sheep-range. The 
animals on a range are usually left to take care of them- 
selves during the whole year without shelter, excepting 
when periodically gathered in a " round-up " for counting 
and selection, and for branding when the herds of several 
Lodgement, rangement, and adjustment of our other 
ideas. Waterland, Works, IV. 468. 
ranger (rau'jer), n. [Early mod. E. also raun- 
ger; < range + -er 1 . Cf. F. rangeur, one who 
arranges.] 1. One who ranges, or roams, or 
proprietors run together. In severe winters many are lost roves about; especially, one engaged in raug- 
by such exposure. j n g or going about for some specific purpose, 
Cowboys from neighboring ranches will ride over, look- 
ing for lost horses, or seeing if their cattle have strayed 
off the range. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 500. 
(6) A course for shooting at marks or target* ; a space of 
ground appropriated or laid out for practice in the use 
of firearms : distinctively called a rifle-range or shooting- 
range. 
8. A fire-grate. 
He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and 
let down the cinders. Sir R. L' Estrange. (Latham.) 
9. A cooking-stove built into a fireplace, or 
sometimes portable but of a similar shape, hav- 
ing a row or rows of openings on the top for 
carrying on several operations at once. Fixed 
ranges usually have two ovens, either on each side of the 
fire-chamber or above it at the back, and in houses sup- 
plied with running water a hot-water reservoir or perma- 
nent boiler. The origin of the modern cooking-range may 
be sought in the furnaces of masonry of the ancient Ro- 
mans, arranged to receive cooking-utensils on the top. 
Throughout the middle ages only open-chimney fires were 
used, until in France, in the course of the fourteenth cen- 
tury, built furnaces with openings above for pots began 
to be added in great kitchens, for convenience in preparing 
the soups and sauces then in greater favor than before. 
The range in the modern sense, involving the application of 
heat conducted by and reflected from iron plates, was first 
advanced and practically improved by Count Kumford. 
It [the kitchen] was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence, 
With many raunges reard along the wall, 
And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence 
The smoke forth threw. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 29. 
Every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth 
shall be unclean ; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, 
they shall be broken down. Lev. xi. 35. 
And so home, where I found all clean, and the hearth 
and range, as it is now enlarged, both up. 
Pepys, Diary, May 25, 1661. 
10. A step of a ladder ; a round ; a rung. [Ob- 
solete or local.] 
The first range of that ladder which should serve to 
mount over all their customs. Clarendon, Great Rebellio 
1 1 . Naut. : (at) A large cleat with two arms or 
branches, bolted in the waist of ships to belay 
the tacks and sheets to. (6) A certain quantity 
of cable hauled up on deck from the chain-lock- 
er, of a length slightly greater than the depth 
of water, in order that the anchor, when let go, Tangerine (ran jer-in), n. Same as rangif<rin<: 
may reach the bottom without being checked. Rangifer tarandus (Gray), the name usually given to 
io J.. vb, ,/; ., strin cut frorn a hntt nv the ol '' Wolld species O f rnniimne deer, of which the 
L4. in .I,,,,. a, strip CHI from a butt 01 American womlland and barren ground caribou are be- 
side ol sole-leather. | icvctl lo ll( , .,.,. va ,.j e ties. .1 .,-. <,.., xiv. aor,. 
as search or ward. 
where are all my rangers bold, 
That I pay meat and fee 
To search the forest far an' wide? 
Young Akin (Child's Ballads, 1. 186). 
Thus fare the shiv'ring natives of the north, 
And thus the rangers of the western world. 
Cowper, Task, i. 618. 
Specifically 2. In England, formerly, a sworn 
officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters 
patent, whose business it was to walk through 
the forest, watch the deer, prevent trespasses, 
etc.; now, merely a go vernment official connect- 
ed with a royal forest or park. 
They [wolves] walke not widely as they were wont, 
For feare of raungers and the great hunt. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. 
The Queen, they say, is by no means delighted at her 
elevation. She likes quiet and retirement and Bushy (of 
which the King has made her ranger), and does not want 
to be a queen. Greville, Memoirs, July 18, 1830. 
3. One of a body of regular or irregular troops, 
or other armed men, employed in ranging over 
a region, either for its protection or as maraud- 
ers: as, the Texan rangers. Military rangers are 
generally mounted, but may fight on foot if occasion re- 
quires. The name is sometimes used in the plural for a 
permanent body of troops, as the Connaught Rangers in 
the British army. 
"Do you know, friend," said the scout gravely, . . . 
"that this is a band of rangers chosen for the most des- 
perate service?" J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxxii. 
A famous Texan Ranger, who had come out of the Mex- 
ican war with a few scars and many honors. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 196. 
4. One who roves forplunder; a robber. [Rare.] 
5. A dog that beats the ground. 6t. A sieve. 
Holland. 7. A kind of fish. See the quotation. 
[At Gibraltar] the Sp. besugo, a kind of seabream, is 
called In English ranger, which word, as the name of a 
fish, I cannot find in any book. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 278. 
8. A kind of seal, probably the young bay- 
seal. [Newfoundland.] partizan ranger. See 
partizanl. 
