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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 ]

n. the act of arranging a piece of music.
Syn. -- arrangement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (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. A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brangled p. pr. & vb. n. Brangling ] To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. brangled confused, entangled, Scot. brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused with brawl. √95.> ] A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrangle; brangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quarrelsome person. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quarrel. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

adj. of or pertaining to the Carangidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any fish of the family Carangidae, including the cavallas, jacks, pompanos and scads. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes allied to the mackerels, with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas; it includes the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
Syn. -- family Carangidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Caranx + -oid. ] (Zool.) Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish. [ 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. ]

n. (Med.) See Cundurango. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Krang. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. shrimps.
Syn. -- family Crangonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [ Written also condurango. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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- + em = en (L. in) + brangle. ] To free from wrangling or litigation. [ Obs. ] Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + brangle. ] To confuse; to entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley. [ 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 ]

v. t. To strangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Cf. F. frangibilité. ] The state or quality of being frangible. Fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. frangible. ] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. frangipane; supposed to be called so from the inventor, the Marquis Frangipani, major general under Louis XIV. ] 1. A perfume of jasmine; frangipani. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.

{ , n. [ Another spelling of frangipane. ] A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. [ 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 ]