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.

A small ramus, or branch.

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.

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..

Same as Accipitres.

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

See Rapparee.

A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

Violent.

Violently.

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.