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▪ I. rance, n.1|rɑːns, -æ-|
Also 7 rauns, raunce, ranse.
[Prob. of F. origin, but not recognized in the leading F. dicts.]
A kind of variegated marble (see quot. 1887). Also attrib.
Described by Larousse (Dict. Univ. XIX Siècle, s.v.) as ‘un marbre blanc et rouge brun, veiné de blanc cendre et de bleu’.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas, Triumph of Faith (title-p.), A Tomb..With Ivorie Pillars mixt with Jet and Rance. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies iv. liii, No Launce can pierce it, it is grown More heard than Raunce, or th' Adamantine stone. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 107 Yielding Coal, Lead, Copper, Rance Marble, and Mill-stones. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 107 Chimney-pieces..of Rance, or Liver-colour'd-marble. 1723J. Smith Art Paint. Oyl (ed. 5) 1 The Stone must be a hard Rance, Marble, or some other of a close grain. 1887Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict., Rance, a marble obtained from Hainault in Belgium, of a dingy red colour varied with veins and spots of blue and white.
fig.1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. Tropheis 1110 What living Rance, what rapting Ivorie Swims in these streams?
▪ II. rance, ranse, n.2 Chiefly Sc.|ræns|
[Perh. a. F. ranche pole, bar, rung (see Hatz.-Darm., and Du Cange s.v. ranchonum).]
A bar or baton; a prop or support.
1808Jamieson, Rance, 1. a prop, a wooden stake employed for the purpose of supporting a building. 2. The cross-bar which joins the lower part of the frame of a chair together. 3. The fore-part of the roof of a bed, or the cornice of a wooden bed. 1855Ainslie Land Burns (1892) 243 Our Cadger..shot the muckle door slot, Made a ranse o' a big racking pin. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Rance, the strut or support of a Congreve rocket. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 199 Rance, a pillar of coal—a large stoop.
Hence rance v. trans., to bar, prop, etc.
1808Jamieson, To rance, to prop with stakes. 1887McNeill Blawearie 54 Did ye sit..wi' a foot ranst against the wa' face. Ibid. 119 We have ‘ransed’ the cage with crossbars.
▪ III. † rance, n.3 Obs.
Nasalized form of race n.6
1570Levins Manip. 21/8 A rance of ginger, zinziber.
▪ IV. † rance, n.4 Obs.
Nasalized form of race n.7
1728[see race n.7].
▪ V. rance
obs. Sc. form of Rhenish. |