1. A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] Milton.
2. A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming
purposes.
And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes
wide. Chaucer.
Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.
3. A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.]
4. A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
5. An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [U. S.]
GRANGER
Gran"ger, n.
1. A farm steward. [Obs.]
2. A member of a grange. [U. S.]
GRANGERISM
Gran"ger*ism, n. Etym: [So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose
"Biographical History of England" (1769) was a favorite book for
illustration in this manner.]
Defn: The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.