Rānt'er, n.

n. 1. A noisy talker; a boisterous preacher. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) (a.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645;—called also Seekers, from maintaining that its members were seeking for the true church and its ordinances, and the Scripture, which were lost. The sect is now extinct. (b.) One of the primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal;—so called in reproach.