ranny
nounEtymology From Latin mūsarāneus (“shrew, fieldmouse”).
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East Anglia, Dialectal, Obsolete A shrew (the animal).
- 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 […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, section XVIII:
- Derived terms
- ranny-gazoo