Rann vs Ranny - What's the difference?
rann | ranny |
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
As nouns the difference between rann and ranny
is that rann is a stanza of irish poetry while ranny is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).ranny
English
Noun
(rannies)- 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 [...].