·noun A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
II. Ranter ·noun One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645;
— called also Seekers. ·see Seeker.
III. Ranter ·noun One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal;
— so called in contempt.