Rankly; strongly; furiously.
To become rank.
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or of being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter: as, rank poison; rank treason; rank nonsense.
Strong in growth; growing with vigor or rapidity; hence, coarse or gross: said of plants.
Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy, plethoric.
Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome; rancid: as, a rank taste or odor.
Hence Coarse or gross morally; offensive to the mind; obscene; indecent; foul.
Ruttish; in heat.
In law, excessive; exceeding the actual value: as, a rank modus.
In mech., cutting strongly or deeply, as the iron of a plane set so as to project more than usual.
Eager; anxious; impatient: as, he was rank to do it.
Very angry; in a passion.
Unmanageable: said of a racehorse on the track.
noun.
Specifically, rank in the United States army according to date of last commission.
In logging, to haul and pile regularly: as, to rank bark or cord-wood.
noun.
A name proposed by Perry for the thermodynamic quantity, .
To arrange in a rank or ranks; place in a rank or line.
To assign to a particular class, order, or division; fix the rank of; class.
To take rank of or over; outrank; as, in the United States army, an officer commissioned simply as general ranks all other generals.
To dispose in suitable order; arrange; classify.
To fix as to state or estimation; settle; establish.
To range; give the range to, as a gun in firing.
To move in ranks or rows.