Crossword clues for rankest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rank \Rank\ (r[a^][ng]k), a. [Compar. Ranker (r[a^][ng]k"[~e]r); superl. Rankest.] [AS. ranc strong, proud; cf. D. rank slender, Dan. rank upright, erect, Prov. G. rank slender, Icel. rakkr slender, bold. The meaning seems to have been influenced by L. rancidus, E. rancid.]
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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
--Gen. xli. 5. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. ``Rank nonsense.''
--Hare. ``I do forgive thy rankest fault.''
--Shak.Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
--Mortimer.Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
--Spenser.Strong to the taste. ``Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.''
--Boyle.-
Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.]
--Shak.Rank modus (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3.
To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) rank, to set so as to take off a thick shaving.
--Moxon.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: rank)
Usage examples of "rankest".
Rising from the weeds were prickly stems whose identity was unmistakable to the rankest of amateurs.
A God without love and compassion is no God at all, but the rankest of evil ones!
Yet you go on like the most unwholesome product of the rankest Bohemianism.
Colonel Clark bidding him report for duty at once, he felt an impulse toward mutiny of the rankest sort.
I decided that even the rankest of amateur detectives needs a stooge to untie him - go on and laugh at me, if you want to, for even attempting to detect!
It means that the rankest kind of a phony will give you the best end of it once in a while.
The rankest cowards have run from the battlefield before we Valkyries get there.
Altogether overgrown as he was with the rankest beard, whiskers and locks, ten barbers could not have made a job of him.
It were rankest folly for him to follow us, for he wears a fine coat and winter is coming and, did I not know he could mindspeak, I myself might be tempted to try to kill him for that fur.
As coasters jumped, suddenly in a hurry, Adira swallowed her temper at being summoned like the rankest cabin boy.
To even think that was rankest heresy by the standards of the Faith as he was taught it.
But she also noted the lack of silver threads in his clothing, and knew him to be the rankest amateur.
Though, I must say, very few of us are Athenians and most of us are the rankest Macedonians.