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Definition of 'ranny'

English

Noun

(rannies)
  • (obsolete|outside|dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
  • instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus'' and ''Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny , blind [...].

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