Dictionary
Found: 4,977 words.
See Ramequin.
Rament
2 defs
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.
of Ramus
The grass-cloth 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
4 defs
A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
of Ramify
Flowering on the branches.
Having the form of a branch.
Ramify
3 defs
To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
of Ramify
Bearing branches; branched.
Producing branches; ramigerous.
A follower of Pierre Rame, 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 Aris...
A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.
of Ram
Refuse matter.
Rammer
4 defs
A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
of Ram
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.
Ramp
9 defs
A highwayman; a robber.
High-spirited; rampageous.
Rampage
2 defs
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.
Rampant
3 defs
Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
In a rampant manner.
Rampart
3 defs
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
of Rampart
of Rampart
The cuckoopint.
of Ramp
See Rampart.
of Ramp
A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.
Rampire
2 defs
A rampart.
Rampler
2 defs
A rambler.
The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Ramshackle
2 defs
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.