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.