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