Rank

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.

Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

Strong to the taste.

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

Rankly; stoutly; violently.

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

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.

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.

Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

To place abreast, or in a line.

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

To take rank of; to outrank.

To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

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.

assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

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"

position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"

relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"