v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Arranging ] [ OE. arayngen, OF. arengier, F. arranger, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. rengier, rangier, F. ranger. See Range, v. t. ] 1. To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

So [ they ] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mechanism previously arranged. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 disposed or placed in a particular kind of order. the carefully arranged chessmen; haphazardly arranged interlobular septa; comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace disarranged
Syn. -- ordered [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a schedule and itinerary established prior to departure; -- of travel plans. an arranged tour of Madrid [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. 1 deliberately arranged for effect. candid
Syn. -- staged [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. arrangement. ] 1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) (a) The adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments for which it was not originally written. (b) A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arranges. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mil.) The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Citrus + orange. ] A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deranged p. pr. & vb. n. Deranging. ] [ F. déranger; pref. dé- = dés- (L. dis) + ranger to range. See Range, and cf. Disarrange, Disrank. ] 1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

Syn. -- To disorder; disarrange; displace; unsettle; disturb; confuse; discompose; ruffle; disconcert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. [ 1913 Webster ]

The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dérangement. ] The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; lunacy; madness; delirium; mania. See Insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disarranged p. pr. & vb. n. Disarranging. ] [ Pref. dis- + arrange: cf. F. désarranger. ] To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the arrangement disturbed; not put in order; as, her disarranged hair. Opposite of arranged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + range: cf. OF. desrengier, F. dérangier. See Derange, Disrank. ] To disarrange. [ Obs. ] Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + range. Cf. Enrank, Arrange. ] 1. To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rove over; to range. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Estranged p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging. ] [ OF. estrangier to remove, F. étranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See Strange. ] 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. estrangement. ] The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. [ 1913 Webster ]

An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long estrangement from better things. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who estranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frangens, p. pr. of frangere. See Fraction. ] Causing fracture; breaking. [ R. ] H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.
Syn. -- unenclosed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. grange barn, LL. granea, from L. granum grain. See Grain a kernel. ] 1. A building for storing grain; a granary. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

And eke an officer out for to ride,
To see her granges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, and particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A farm steward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a grange. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose “Biographical History of England” (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner. ] The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Finance) Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [ U. S., obsolescent ]. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

or . Stocks or shares of the granger railroads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

peop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + &unr_; vessel, capsule: cf. F. hydrangée.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. Hydrangea hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan. [1913 Webster]

prop. n. A natural family of plants including the hydrangeas, sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae.
Syn. -- family Hydrangeaceae, hydrangea family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. involving an extended span of time; -- of plans, goals, or predictions; as, long-range goals; a long-range weather forecast. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. suitable for or reaching long distances; as, a long-range missile; long-range nuclear capability. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A shrub or small tree (Citrus reticulata) having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to Southeast Asia.
Syn. -- mandarin orange tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Same as mandarin{ 7 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misarranged p. pr. & vb. n. Misarranging ] To place in a wrong order, or improper manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F.; cf. It. arancia, arancio, LL. arangia, Sp. naranjia, Pg. laranja; all fr. Ar. nāranj, Per. nāranj, nārang; cf. Skr. nāranga orange tree. The o- in F. orange is due to confusion with or gold, L. aurum, because the orange resembles gold in color. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (Citrus Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are numerous varieties of oranges; as, the bitter orange, which is supposed to be the original stock; the navel orange, which has the rudiment of a second orange imbedded in the top of the fruit; the blood orange, with a reddish juice; and the horned orange, in which the carpels are partly separated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The color of an orange; reddish yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mandarin orange. See Mandarin. --
Mock orange (Bot.), any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms. --
Native orange, or
Orange thorn (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries. --
Orange bird (Zool.), a tanager of Jamaica (Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright orange breast. --
Orange cowry (Zool.), a large, handsome cowry (Cypraea aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity. --
Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. --
Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers. --
Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea. --
Orange pippin, an orange-colored apple with acid flavor. --
Quito orange, the orangelike fruit of a shrubby species of nightshade (Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito. --
Orange scale (Zool.) any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale (Mytilaspis Gloveri), and the red scale (Aspidiotus Aurantii). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. orange. ] A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. orange. ] Candied orange peel; also, orangeade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -men One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the reigning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange. ] A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (Maclura aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to have a greater range than; -- of guns or missiles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To arrange beforehand. [ Also spelled pre-arrange. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ranged p. pr. & vb. n. Ranging ] [ OE. rengen, OF. rengier, F. ranger, OF. renc row, rank, F. rang; of German origin. See Rank, n. ] 1. To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line. [ 1913 Webster ]

Maccabeus ranged his army by bands. 2 Macc. xii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To separate into parts; to sift. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. [ 1913 Webster ]

Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compare the last two senses (5 and 6) with the French ranger une côte. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Biol.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a ranging spaniel that barks at every bird he sees. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

And range with humble livers in content. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which way the forests range. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Biol.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To rove; roam; ramble; wander; stroll. [ 1913 Webster ]