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See Ramequin. [Obs.]

A scraping; a shaving. [Obs.]

leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. Gray.

Covered with ramenta.

Ramal.

A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. [Written also ramekin.]

The grasscloth plant (Boehmeria 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 or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

Flowering on the branches.

Having the form of a branch.

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

Bearing branches; branched.

Producing branches; ramigerous.

A follower of Pierre Ramé, 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. [Obs.] Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones. Holland.

One who, or that which, rams or drives. Specifically:

Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious. "Their savor is so rammish." Chaucer.

The quality of being rammish.

Like a ram; rammish. Burton.