ranny

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ranny

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From Latin mūsarāneus (“shrew, fieldmouse”).

noun rannies

East Anglia, dialectal, obsolete A shrew (the animal). 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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@misc{ranny_2026,
  title = {ranny},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ranny},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}