[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rank \rank\ ra^ngk, a. compar. ranker
   ra^ngk"~er; superl. rankest. as. ranc strong,
   proud; cf. d. rank slender, dan. rank upright, erect, prov.
   g. rank slender, icel. rakkr slender, bold. the meaning seems
   to have been influenced by l. rancidus, e. rancid.
   1. luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown
      to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
      1913 webster

            and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one
            stalk, rank and good.                 --gen. xli. 5.
      1913 webster

   2. raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;
      as, rank heresy. "rank nonsense." --hare. "i do forgive
      thy rankest fault." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich
      and fertile; as, rank land. --mortimer.
      1913 webster

   4. strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;
      rank-smelling rue. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   5. strong to the taste. "divers sea fowls taste rank of the
      fish on which they feed." --boyle.
      1913 webster

   6. inflamed with venereal appetite. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   rank modus law, an excessive and unreasonable modus. see
      modus, 3.

   to set the iron of a plane, etc. rank, to set so as to
      take off a thick shaving. --moxon.
      1913 webster
see also:
ranker rankest rank modus modus to set rank 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rank \rank\, adv.
   rankly; stoutly; violently. obs.
   1913 webster

         that rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
                                                  --fairfax.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rank \rank\, n. oe. renk, reng, of. renc, f. rang, fr. ohg.
   hring a circle, a circular row, g. ring. see ring, and cf.
   range, n.  v.
   1. a row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of
      osiers.
      1913 webster

            many a mountain nigh
            rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still. --byron.
      1913 webster

   2. mil. a line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed
      to file. see 1st file, 1
      a .
          1913 webster

                fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
                in ranks and squadrons and right form of war.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster

   3. grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or
      nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
      1913 webster

   4. 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.
      1913 webster

   5. 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.
      1913 webster

            these all are virtues of a meaner rank. --addison.
      1913 webster

   6. elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social
      position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
      1913 webster

   rank and file.
      a mil. the whole body of common soldiers, including
          also corporals. in a more extended sense, it includes
          sergeants also, excepting the noncommissioned staff.
          1913 webster
see also:
ring range file rank and file 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rank \rank\, v. t. imp.  p. p. ranked ra^ngkt; p. pr.
    vb. n. ranking.
   1. to place abreast, or in a line.
      1913 webster

   2. to range in a particular class, order, or division; to
      class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable
      classes or order; to classify.
      1913 webster

            ranking all things under general and special heads.
                                                  --i. watts.
      1913 webster

            poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
                                                  --broome.
      1913 webster

            heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. --dr.
                                                  h. more.
      1913 webster

   3. to take rank of; to outrank. u.s.
      1913 webster
see also:
ranked ranking 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rank \rank\, v. i.
   1. to be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular
      degree, class, order, or division.
      1913 webster

            let that one article rank with the rest. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rank
     adj 1: very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
     2: very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
     3: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
        crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
        human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude";
        "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" syn: cryinga, egregious,
         flagrant, glaring, gross
     4: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
        used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
        absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
        "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
        vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
        stupidity" syn: absolute, downright, out-and-outa,
         ranka, right-down, sheera
     5: growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
     n 1: a row or line of people especially soldiers or police
          standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was
          guarded by ranks of policemen"
     2: relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and
        seniority"
     3: the ordinary members of an organization such as the
        enlisted soldiers of an army; "the strike was supported
        by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to
        become a colonel" syn: rank and file
     4: position in a social hierarchy; "the british are more aware
        of social status than americans are" syn: social station,
         social status, social rank
     5: the body of members of an organization or group; "they
        polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their
        own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" syn:
        membership
     v 1: take or have a position relative to others; "this painting
          ranks among the best in the western world"
     2: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these
        students?"; "the restaurant is rated highly in the food
        guide" syn: rate, range, order, grade, place
     3: take precedence or surpass others in rank syn: outrank
see also:
cryinga egregious flagrant glaring gross absolute 
downright out-and-outa ranka right-down sheera 
rank and file social station social status social rank membership 
rate range order grade place 
outrank 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

741 moby thesaurus words for "rank":
   english horn, ic analysis, indian file, kp, abject, abominable,
   absolute, abundant, adjust, align, alphabetize, analyze, ancestry,
   antecede, appositive, appraise, appreciate, aristocracy,
   aristocraticalness, army, army group, arrange, arrant, array,
   articulation, ascendancy, assess, assort, atrocious, attribute,
   attributive, authority, awful, bad, bad-smelling, bank, barfy,
   base, bassoon, battalion, battery, battle group, be distinguished,
   be regarded, be thought of, bearings, beastly, beggarly,
   beneath contempt, birth, black, blamable, blameworthy, blatant,
   block flute, blood, blown, blue, blue blood, bolt, bombard,
   bourdon, bracket, brackish, branch, break down, brigade, broad,
   broken, brutal, bulk, bumpy, buzz, cachet, cadre, call, capacity,
   capital, case, caste, catalog, categorize, category, catena,
   catenation, cello, chain, chain reaction, chaining, character,
   cheesy, choppy, circumstance, circumstances, clan, claribel,
   clarinet, clarion, class, classical, classify, cloying, coarse,
   coarse-grained, codify, cohort, collate, column, combat command,
   combat team, come before, come first, company, complement,
   complete, concatenation, concert flute, condition, connection,
   consecution, consequence, conspicuous, construction modifier,
   consummate, contemptible, continuity, continuum, cool off, cornet,
   cornopean, corps, corrugated, corrupt, count, course, crappy,
   crass, criminal, cromorna, cross-grained, crummy, cutting, cycle,
   cymbel, damnable, dank, dark, debased, decided, deep structure,
   definitive, degraded, degree, dense, deplorable, deploy, depraved,
   descent, despicable, detachment, detail, detestable, diapason,
   digest, dignity, dire, direct object, dirty, disagreeable,
   disgraceful, disgusting, dispose, distinction, divide, division,
   downright, dreadful, drone, dulciana, earthy, echelon, egregious,
   eminence, employees, endless belt, endless round, enlarge,
   enormous, estate, estimate, evaluate, evil, execrable, exuberant,
   face, fecal, feculent, fertile, fetid, field army, field train,
   figure, file, filiation, filler, filthy, fix, flagitious, flagrant,
   flourishing, flute stop, flyblown, flying column, footing, form,
   form an estimate, form-function unit, formation, foul,
   foundation stop, fourniture, frank, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
   fructuous, fulsome, function, funky, fusty, gamba, gamut, gamy,
   garrison, gauge, gedeckt, gemshorn, genteelness, gentility,
   give an appreciation, glaring, gloppy, go ahead of, go before,
   go in advance, gradate, gradation, grade, graduate, grainy,
   granulated, grave, graveolent, greatness, grievous, gross, group,
   grouping, grown, guess, gunky, gutter, harmonic flute, harmonize,
   hateful, have priority, head, head the table, head up, heading,
   heavy, heinous, hierarchize, hierarchy, high, high place,
   high-tasted, homespun, honorable descent, horrible, horrid,
   horripilant, hum, humid, hybrid stop, icky, ill-smelling,
   immediate constituent analysis, immodest, impenetrable, importance,
   improper, indecent, indecorous, index, indirect object, inequal,
   infamous, influence, influentialness, iniquitous, intolerable,
   irregular, jam, jolty, jungled, jungly, kick off, kin,
   kitchen police, knavish, koppel flute, kudos, label, lamentable,
   larigot, lavish, lay out, lead, lead off, legion, level, levels,
   line, line up, lineage, linsey-woolsey, list, little, loathsome,
   location, lot, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, lush,
   luxuriant, maggoty, make an estimation, malodorous, mangy, maniple,
   mark, marshal, match, mawkish, mean, measly, measure, melodia,
   mephitic, methodize, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
   miserable, mixture, modality, mode, modifier, moldy, moment,
   monotone, monstrous, mucky, musty, mutation stop, nasty, naughty,
   nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nazard, nefarious, nexus, nidorous,
   nobility, noble birth, nobleness, noisome, normalize, noticeable,
   notorious, noxious, object, obnoxious, oboe, obscene, octave,
   odious, odorous, off, off color, offensive, olid, order, ordurous,
   organ stop, organization, organize, out-and-out, outfit,
   outrageous, outrank, outright, outstanding, overgrown, overripe,
   overrun, pacify, paltry, pass, peccant, peerage, pendulum, perfect,
   periodicity, petty, phalanx, phrase structure, piccolo, pickle,
   pigeonhole, pimply, pitiable, pitiful, pitted, place, platoon,
   play first fiddle, plein jeu, plenum, plight, pocky, poisonous,
   poky, poor, pornographic, posaune, position, positive, posse,
   posture, potholed, powder train, power, power structure, precede,
   precedence, precious, predicament, predicate, pressure, prestige,
   principal, priority, prize, productive, profound, profuse,
   progression, prolific, prominence, pronounced, proper, proportion,
   puky, pungent, putrid, qualifier, quality, queue, quiet, quint,
   quintaten, race, rampant, rancid, range, rank first, rank out,
   ranket, ranks, rate, rating, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy,
   rebarbative, reckon, recurrence, reechy, reed stop, reeking, reeky,
   regiment, register, regrettable, regular, regularize, regulate,
   reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, reticulation,
   riddle, riotous, ripply, risque, rohr flute, rotation, rotten,
   rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, round, routine,
   routinize, row, royalty, rubric, ruffled, run, rutted, rutty, sad,
   scabby, scale, scandalous, scatological, schlock, screen, scrubby,
   scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, section, seniority, separate,
   sept, sequence, serial order, series, sesquialtera, set, set up,
   shabby, shagged, shaggy, shallow structure, shameful, shameless,
   shattering, shawm, sheer, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening,
   sieve, sift, sinful, single file, situation, size, slabby, slimy,
   sloppy, sloshy, slot, slot and filler, sludgy, slushy, small,
   smellful, smelling, smelly, smutty, soldiers, sordid, sort,
   sort out, sour, spectrum, sphere, spitz flute, spoiled, sposhy,
   spot, squad, squadron, squalid, staff, stage, stale, stand,
   stand first, standardize, standing, star, stark, stark-staring,
   state, station, stature, status, stenchy, stinking, stop,
   stopped diapason, stopped flute, strain, strata, stratum, string,
   string diapason, string out, string stop, strong, strong-flavored,
   strong-tasting, structure, stuffy, subdivide, subdivision,
   subgroup, subject, suborder, subordinate, subordination,
   succession, sulfurous, superabundant, superiority, superlative,
   surface structure, surpassing, swath, syntactic analysis,
   syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, systematize, tabulate,
   tactical unit, tagmeme, tainted, take precedence, task force,
   terrible, textured, the veriest, thick, thorough, thoroughgoing,
   thread, tier, tierce, title, too bad, total, train, tranquilize,
   tremolo, trombone, troop, trumpet, turned, twelfth, type,
   unalloyed, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncouth,
   unda maris, undeniable, underlying structure, undiluted,
   unequivocal, uneven, unforgivable, unit, unkempt, unlevel,
   unmentionable, unmitigated, unpardonable, unpolished, unqualified,
   unrefined, unrelieved, unsmooth, unspeakable, unspoiled, ununiform,
   unweeded, unworthy, usher in, utter, valuate, value, vibrato,
   vicious, vile, villainous, viola, voix celeste, vomity,
   vox angelica, vox humana, vulgar, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy,
   weevily, weight, weightiness, wicked, wimpled, windrow, wing,
   woeful, word arrangement, word order, workers, wormy, worst,
   worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

[8] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

rank, n.  relative elevation in the scale of human worth.

    he held at court a rank so high
    that other noblemen asked why.
    "because," 'twas answered, "others lack
    his skill to scratch the royal back."
                                                          aramis jukes

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