Ranny

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shrew (the animal). East-Anglia, dialectal, obsolete

    "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 […]"

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shrewshrew

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"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 […]"

Etymology

From Latin mūsarāneus (“shrew, fieldmouse”).

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