释义 |
▪ I. ranny Obs. exc. dial.|ˈrænɪ| Also 9 -ey. [App. ad. L. araneus mūs (Colum. and Pliny) ‘a kind of small mouse, acc. to some the shrew mouse’.] The shrew mouse, or field mouse.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 173 Venomous beastes, and Wormes, as Ranny, Tode, Edder. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 153 Sammonicus and Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny, blinde. 1787in Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. Gloss. 1823Moor Suffolk Words, Ranny, the long-nosed, small-eyed, fetid shrew or field mouse... Hence anything long nosed is called ranny-nosed. ▪ II. ranny Sc. var. randy a., obs. f. ranee. |