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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.

t which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

See Cramp, n., 2.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

See Crampet.

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