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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--rangy This week's theme: words to describe people. rangy (RAYN-jee) adjective 1. Slim and long-limbed. 2. Inclined to roaming. [From Middle English range (row), from Old French rangier (to arrange). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, crisp, search, ring, curb, ridge, and curve.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "[Philip] Pullman is a rangy, spirited man in his fifties with a bristling fringe of gray hair; at times, he resembles an intelligent and amused stork." Laura Miller; Far From Narnia; The New Yorker; Dec 26, 2005. X-Bonus We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -Dwight David Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

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