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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Placing in a row or line; disposing in order, method or classes; roving; passing near and in the direction of.

Noun.

The act of placing in lines or in order; a roving, &c.

ranging

present participle of range
- 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
  In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

ranging ‎(plural rangings)

Act of one who ranges.
- 1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends
  […] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]