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

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

Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

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

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

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

In a rambling manner.

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

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.

Same as Ramal.

A Ramist.

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

See Ramie.

same as Ramequin.

A scraping; a shaving.

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

Covered with ramenta.

Ramal.

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

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.

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

Flowering on the branches.

Having the form of a branch.

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

Bearing branches; branched.

Producing branches; ramigerous.

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.

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

Refuse matter.

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.

Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

The quality of being rammish.

Like a ram; rammish.

A softening or mollifying.

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

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

Ramose.

A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.

High-spirited; rampageous.

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

Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.

A mean wretch.

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

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

In a rampant manner.

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

The cuckoopint.

See Rampart.

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

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

Roving; rambling.

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

To search or ransack; to rummage.

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

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

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.

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

Ramulose.

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

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

Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

A prop or shore.

Becoming rancid or sour.

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

A dwelling place of a ranchero.

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

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

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

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

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

In a rancid manner.

The quality of being rancid.

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

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

In a rancorous manner.

To rant; to storm.

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

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

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.

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.

In a random manner.

To go or stray at random.

See Reindeer.

Same as Rani.

See Re/nforce.

imp. of Ring, v. t. i.

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

Arrangement.

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

The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

To range about in an irregular manner.

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

A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

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

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

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

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

The condition or quality of being rank.

A prostitute.

The erd shrew.

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

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.

Such as can be ransomed.

One who ransoms or redeems.

Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

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

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

In a ranting manner.

To act like a rantipole.

Ranterism.

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

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

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.

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.

conversation; also, rapping.

a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; same as 7th rap, n..