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Ramose.

To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

High-spirited; rampageous. [Slang] Dickens.

lent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] Dickens.

Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [Prov. or Low] In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt.

A mean wretch. [Obs.] Shak.

The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. "They are come to this height and rampancy of vice." South.

Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious. The fierce lion in his kind Which goeth rampant after his prey. Gower. [The] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane. Milton.

In a rampant manner.

To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

The cuckoopint.

See Rampart. [Obs.]

anula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.

A rampart. [Archaic] The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.

A rambler.

The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

sjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.

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.

tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil, or niger, seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.