RANDOM (older forms randon, randrun; from the

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• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, cf. randir, to run quickly, impetuously; generally taken to be of

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic origin and connected with Ger.

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• RAND

Rand, edge, brim, the

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• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea being possibly of a brimming

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• RIVER

river)  , an adjective originally meaning impetuous, hasty, hence done without purpose or aim, haphazard . The term " random work " is used, in -architecture, by the rag-stone masons, for stones fitted together at random without any attempt at laying them in courses . " Random coursed work " is a like term applied to work coursed in horizontal beds, but the stones are of varying height, and fitted to one another (see MASONRY) .