ramage

See also: Ramage

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin ramus (“a branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæmɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -æmɪdʒ

Adjective

ramage

1. (obsolete) wild; untamed

Noun

ramage

1. Boughs or branches.
   • 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:

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

2. 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

References

• “ramage” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Gemara, Megara, megara