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Having many small branches, or ramuli.

Ramulose.

A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.

A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

A small ramus, or branch.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

A record made by the actinograph.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

A maker anagrams.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.

A record made by an anemograph.

Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.

Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

An idiom of the Aramaic.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.