ramage

Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -æmɪd͡ʒ

ramage

1. (obsolete) of a person or thing: wild; untamed
2. (obsolete) of a place or terrain: scrubby, thicketed, rough

ramage (plural ramages)

1. wildness, spirit, courage, ferocity
2. (anthropology) A cognatic descent group.
   • 1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273:

     Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority […]

3. (archaic) Boughs or branches.
   • 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:

     That beneficent stem […]
     From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.

4. (archaic) The warbling of birds in trees.
   • 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Sonnet”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains:

     And birds on thee their ramage did bestow

• “ramage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gemara, Megara, megara