range

1. range (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

2. range (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).

Example: Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.

3. range (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Selection, array.

Example: We sell a wide range of cars.

4. range (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

5. range (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To rove over or through.

Example: to range the fields

6. range (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.

Example: The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.