▪ I. † renge, n.1 Obs.
Also 4 reng, rengge, 5 reenge.
[a. OF. renge (Godef.), related to renger, -ier, to renge. The var. range was also adopted in ME., and finally became the standard form: see range n.]
A rank, row, line, esp. of fighting men.
| 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 3807 Þe kinges sone of Asie..Out of þe renge he com ride. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5021 Cesar..arraied þem in renges right, & assigned whiche bataille first schold fight. c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1736 In two renges faire they hem dresse. c 1450 Merlin 588 Merlin that rode fro oo renge to a-nother ascride hem often ‘ore auaunt’. 1481 Caxton Myrr. ii. vi. 77 Wythin the ryuer & flode of ynde named Ganges goon the eeles by grete renges whiche ben .c.c.c. feet long. 1530 Palsgr. 262/1 Renge, rovte, ranc. |
▪ II. † renge, n.2 Obs.
Also 4 reynge.
[Of obscure origin; cf. range n.2]
A sieve or strainer.
| c 1362 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 566 Pro uno reynge emp. pro pistrina xviij d. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 38 Þerow a crees bunte syfte hem, & for defaute of a bonte, take a Renge. 1506 Yatton Church-W. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 128 For botomyng of y⊇ clensyng renge..iiij d. 1697 G. Dampier in Phil. Trans. XX. 50 Powder it, and pass it through a Renge or fine Seive. |
▪ III. renge
obs. Sc. f. reign n., obs. f. ring v., var. rink man. Obs.
▪ IV. † renge, v. Obs.
Also 5 rengne.
[ad. OF. renger to set in rank or line, to roam: see renge n.1 and cf. range v.1]
1. intr. a. To move hither and thither, roam, stray. b. To draw up in line or rank.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 164 Þe helle liun rengeð & reccheð euer abuten..soule uorte uorswoluwen. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 40 His Danes wild he venge Ageyn him in bataile, to renne & to renge. c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xvi, Commonliche þei go byfore her maister rengeynge and playnge with hir taile. c 1420 Avow. Arth. vii, The raches comun rengnyng him by, And bayet him fulle boldely. c 1450 Merlin 198 Than thei rode forth and renged close that wey where as the childeren foughten. |
2. trans. To set in order, put in array.
| 13.. Coer de L. 4443 Her folk wer rengyd in that playn. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 159 Richard was perceyued, þei were renged redie, & how þer pencels weyued. ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 1380 With many high laurer and pine, Was renged [F. pueplés] clene all that gardine. c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, Alle þe oþer tyndes gret and longe, wele sette and wele renged. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 70 He had devised and ordeined the herbers to be compassed, rengid, and made. c 1489 Caxton Blanchardyn xxix. 105 The two barons..camen to the felde, where they fonden their folke renged to-gydre. 1530 Palsgr. 685/2, I renge, or set in array, or in order one by another, je arrengie. |
| refl. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8257 To renne on þe [þey] schul þem renge. c 1450 Merlin 127 Than two of hem renged hem and priked after the messagers. c 1500 Melusine 352 Thenne armed hym euery man, And..came & renged them before the bataylles. |
Hence † renged ppl. a. Obs.
| 1609 Heywood Brit. Troy xiv. xiv, Now mongst their renged Squadrons Troylus flings. |