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That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
n.
Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
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To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
n.
The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
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To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
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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.
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To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
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See Range of cable, below.
imp. & p. p.
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One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
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That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
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One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
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Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.
v. i.
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.
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A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
v. i.
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.
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To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
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Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
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The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture.
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