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n. One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who estranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A farm steward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a grange. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose “Biographical History of England” (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner. ] The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Finance) Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [ U. S., obsolescent ]. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

or . Stocks or shares of the granger railroads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange. ] A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [ Obs. ] “The tamis ranger.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dog that beats the ground in search of game. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [ Eng. ] Rangers in U.S. national parks and national monuments perform a similar function. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The office of the keeper of a forest or park. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. estrangier, F. étranger. See Strange. ] 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a most poor woman and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,
And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was no stranger to the original. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To honor and receive
Our heavenly stranger. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. [ 1913 Webster ]