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Boughs or branches. [Obs.] Crabb.

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.

The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

esolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

Assemblage a second time or again.

Act of carrying back.

The act of coining anew.

To encourage again.

To engage a second time or again.

A renewed or repeated engagement.

A second or repeated marriage.

Rent. [Obs.]

The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.

SAme as Report. [Obs.]

Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repoussé work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]