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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having left, the nest and begun to sit upon the branches: said of birds.
  2. Hence Wild or savage; untamed.
  3. Also ramish, rammish.
  4. n. The branching of trees or plants; branches collectively.
  5. n. The warbling of birds among branches; bird-song.
  6. n. A branch of a pedigree; lineage; kindred.
  7. n. Courage.
  8. n. Same as rummage.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete wild; untamed

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Boughs or branches.
  2. n. obsolete Warbling of birds in trees.
  3. adj. obsolete Wild; untamed.

Examples

  • “Obama has called the ramage, which killed six and injured 14, a tragedy for the entire country.”

    USA Today: Family of Ariz. shooting suspect apologizes

  • “Bly writes: ‘Wanting Sumptuous Heavens’ is written in a form called the ramage.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Best American Poetry 2008

  • “Twenty feet below the bluff the oily flood of the Sutlej was swirling by in full spate, the bubbling brown surface strewn with ramage which was piling up against the great bridge of boats, four hundred yards long and anchored by massive chains, that spanned the river to the southern shore.”

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light

  • “A ramage of trees, which, if leafless now, was at least dense enough to provide an effective lattice.”

    Scaramouche

  • “Both the numerical proportions of evergreens to other greens, and the scheme of their distribution, are quite as correct and effective for contrast and background to the transient foliage and countless flowers of July as amid the bare ramage of January.”

    The Amateur Garden

  • “His white hair, powdered and dressed _à l'oiseau royale_; his Persian slippers and _robe de chambre, à grand ramage_, (we hope, reader, you have a French dictionary near you) spoke of principles as old as his toilet.”

    The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

  • “A spokesman added that the Citroen Picasso car driven by Bird on his ramage had been damaged at the time.”

    Whitehaven News headlines

  • “The US has two choices, choice one: defend the seduction, causing even more ramage to American's international rep**ation, or send the child back to his only pathological and shoving parent (ding ring ring common fence) and thereby kiss off a few rich nationalists in Rio.”

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  1. wild
  1. untamed

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  1. damage

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  • chelster The pseudo-French pronunciation recorded by john is unattested. In the sense of "tree branches" ramage dates back in English to the mid-1600s, and its pronunciation has long been anglicized. Ramage should rhyme with damage. — The Orthoepist Jun 8, 2010

  • trivet n. 1. Boughs or branches.
    2. Warbling of birds in trees.
    a. 1. Wild; untamed.

    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co. Nov 20, 2008

  • fbharjo ramage - branches such as in ramifications; possibilities Jan 8, 2007

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