Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rand"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rand \Rand\, n. [D.] (D. pron. ?)
Rim; egde; border. [South Africa]
{The Rand}, a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about
thirty miles long, on which Johannesburg is situated;
also, the gold-mining district including this ridge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rand \Rand\, v. i. [See {Rant}.]
To rant; to storm. [Obs.]
I wept, . . . and raved, randed, and railed. --J.
Webster.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rand \Rand\, n. [AS. rand, rond; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G.
rand, Icel. r["o]nd, and probably to E. rind.]
1. A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or
leg; a sort of steak. --Beau. & Fl.
3. A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of
leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rand
n 1: the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
2: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her
polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)
[syn: {Rand}, {Ayn Rand}]
3: a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern
South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and
manganese [syn: {Witwatersrand}, {Rand}, {Reef}]
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