Ranny
Origin
From Latin araneus mus ("shrew, fieldmouse").
Full definition of ranny
Noun
ranny
(plural rannies)- (obsolete except dialectal) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, XVIII:instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus and Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny, blind ....