ramage

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"Ramage, of, or belonging to, branches; also, ramage, hagard, wild, homely, rude"

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  1. Having left, the nest and begun to sit upon the branches: said of birds. A brancher, a ramage hawke. Cotgrave. Nor must you expect from high antiquity the distinctions of eyes and ramage hawks. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, v.
  2. Hence Wild or savage; untamed. Longe ye gan after hym abyde, Cerching, enquering in wodes ramage, A wilde swine chasing at that houred tyde. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), l. 527. Ellis he is not wise ne sage, No more than is a gote ramage. Rom. of the Rose, l. 5384. Yet if she were so tickle as ye would take no stand, so ramage as she would be reclaimed with no leave. Greene, Gwydonius (1593). (Halliwell.)
  3. Also ramish, rammish.
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  • The cartoon makes little sense outside of the context of the news cycle (there was a chimp on the ramage that week).
  • 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. —  Home
  • "Sans mentir, si votre ramage" ( "Without lying, if your song"). —  Emile
  • The faucon which that fleth ramage 2430 —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
  • "Ramage, of, or belonging to, branches; also, ramage, hagard, wild, homely, rude" —  The Romance of Names
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  1. I. a. from Middle English ramage, from Old French ramage, of or belonging to branches, wild, rude, from Late Latin *ramaticus, of branches, from ramus, a branch: see ramus. II. n. from Old French ramage, branches, branching, song of birds on the branches, etc., from Late Latin *ramaticum, neuter of *ramaticus, of branches: see I.
 

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