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ˈover-ˈrank, a.
[OE. oferranc: see over- 28.]
Too rank or vigorous in growth; too gross.
a1023Wulfstan Hom. vi. (Napier) 46 God..reafjan læteð eowere dohtra heora gyrla and to oferrancra heafodᵹewæda. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. (Arb.) 113 If Osorius would leaue of..his ouer rancke rayling against poore Luther. 1609Drayton Leg. T. Cromwell cxvii, Things ouer ranck doe neuer kindly beare, As in the corne the fluxure when we see Fill but the straw when it should feed the eare. 1689Swift Ode to W. Sancroft v, Our British soil is over rank, and breeds Among the noblest flowers a thousand pois'nous weeds. 1712Mortimer Husb. ii. 228 If your [Hop] Ground..be apt to produce over-rank Binds.
Hence ˈover-ˈrankness.
1626Bacon Sylva §670 Over-Ranknesse of the Corne; Which they use to remedy, by Mowing it after it is come up; Or putting Sheepe into it. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 81 Wheat, about the latter end of October is best [sowed] because of preventing the over-rankness of it. |