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Ramal

Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.

Ramayana

The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

Ramberge

Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

Ramble

A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.

Rambler

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

Rambling

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Rambooze

A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.

Rambutan

A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.

Ramed

Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

Ramenta

Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.

Ramequin

A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.

Ramie

The grasscloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

Ramification

The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

Ramify

To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

Ramist

A follower of Pierre Ram/, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

Ramline

A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

Rammer

One who, or that which, rams or drives. An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity. A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod. An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

Rammish

Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

Rammy

Like a ram; rammish.

Ramoon

A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

Ramose

Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

Ramp

A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.

Rampage

To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.

Rampageous

Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.

Rampancy

The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.

Rampant

Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.

Rampart

To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

Rampion

A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.

Rampire

To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.

Ramrod

The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

Ramson

A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

Ramsted

A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.

Ramtil

A tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil seeds or niger seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.

Ramulose

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

Ramulus

A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.

Ramus

A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

Ran

Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

Rana

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

Ranal

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

Ranch

A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

Ranchero

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

Ranchman

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.

Rancho

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Rancid

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

Rancidity

The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.

Rancor

The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

Rancorous

Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

Rand

To rant; to storm.

Randan

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

Randing

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

Random

Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

Randomize

To arrange or rearrange so that there is no predetermined order; to make random; to select by a random process; to assign (members of a group) into subgroups by a random process.

Randon

To go or stray at random.

Rang

imp. of Ring, v. t. i.

Range

A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

Ranger

One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

Rangership

The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

Rangle

To range about in an irregular manner.

Rangy

Inclined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, -- chiefly used of cattle.

Rani

A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

Ranine

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

Rank

To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

Ranker

One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

Rankle

To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

Rankly

With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

Rankness

The condition or quality of being rank.

Ransack

The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.

Ransom

To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

Ransomless

Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Rant

High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

Ranter

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

Ranterism

The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

Ranty

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

Ranula

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Ranunculaceous

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

Ranunculus

A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (Ranunculus Asiaticus, Ranunculus aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

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