YourOED word for today is: ramage, adj. ramage, adj. [‘ Of an animal: wild, untamed, unruly, violent. Obs.’] Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈramɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈræmɪdʒ/ Forms: ME– ramage, lME raynage transmission error, 15–16 rammage, 16 ramadge; Sc. pre-17 ramach, pre-17 ramadge, pre-17 rammasche, pre-17 17 ramage, pre-17 17– rammage; 15 rammedge, 15–16 ramege, 15–16 rammege. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ramage (French †ramage) (of a bird, especially a young hunting bird) untrained, wild (c1174), (more generally) of the trees (a1185), (of a forest) bushy (13th cent.), (of an animal) wild, untamed (14th cent.) < ram branch (see rame n.1) + -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin ramageus, ramagius (in falconry) wild, untamed, having left the nest (1237, 1330, 1333 in British sources). Compare Old Occitan ramatge (second half of the 12th cent.). Compare ramage n.2 1. †a. Of an animal: wild, untamed, unruly, violent. Obs. c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 65 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 4 Þe wolfues þat weren ramage. c1425 Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 2878 (MED), Hector & Achilles..ran I-fere fersely in her rage As wode lyons whan þei be ramage. c1450 (▸?c1408) Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2858 At wylde bestis for to shete..Whan she seeth hem to savage, Hygh of gres, or to Ramage. 1532 (▸c1385) Usks Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxviiiv, Nothyng is werse than the beestes that shulden ben tame, if they catche her wyldenesse, and gynne ayen waxe ramage. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 30, I herd the rumour of rammasche foulis ande of beystis that maid grite beir. 1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) i. xiii. f. 14v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe, A horse that is..of nature ramege or restyffe. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. iii. 12 Horses..becomming wild, rammage, and unruly. 1696 A. S. Gentlemans Compl. Jockey 30 If he [sc. the horse] should make resistance, for that he is either rammage or evil broken, then trot him swiftly with quickness of Voice, Rod and Spur. b. Of a person: fierce, frenzied, uncontrollable; excited, unruly. Sc. after 16th cent. Now rare. ▸1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 422 Ramage, or coragyows, corragiosus, luitosus. c1475 (▸1464) J. Hardyng Chron. (Harl.) (1812) 176 (MED), Ramage [1543 Grafton Vnburyed hole withoute sacrament..Some woode, some raynage went]. a1540 (▸c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 12513 For men callit ȝow cuvatus but ressoun all ramage Vncunnand gredy fyry and savage. 1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits lxv. sig. F. iiii, If there be any man that is ramage: take the Flowers and the leaues, a great quantytie, and boyle them together in a good quantytie of cleane water, in that, Paciens bulneat: and it shall heale hym. a1612 W. Fowler Trivmphs Petrarke in Wks. (1914) I. 54 This Rammage and rebelling mayde. 1643 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 72 He is so extraordinarlie ramage, that I think we will hardlie receave him under our discipline. 1714 Vindic. Church Scotl. from W. Dugud 54 Mr Dugud seemed rammage and forward. 1749 Let. in Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word), He had been in several partes of Holland, and had seen so many fine things he was quite Ramage. [1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 406 When a man is rammaged, that is..crazd..with drink.] 1913 H. P. Cameron tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ i. xxiv. 43 Thar sal the rammage an the haluckit be ploppd i brennin pick an smushy brunstane. 1946 S. G. Smith Deevils Waltz 46 As the frantic rammage Panzers brash on Moscow toun. †2. a. Falconry. Of a hawk, falcon, etc.: wild, untamed, shy; spec. having left the nest, but as yet only capable of brief flights from branch to branch (cf. brancher n.2). Obs. ▸a1393 Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 2430 (MED), The faucon which that fleth ramage, And soeffreth nothing in the weie..Is noght mor set upon ravine Than thilke man. 1484 Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) x. 24 Take a sperhauke ramage, And calle hym curtoysly, and ye shal make hym come frely to yow. a1500 Who Carpys (Trin. Cambr. O.9.38)in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 27 (MED), To another sche dyd enclyne, And as a ramage hawke began to cry. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 31 The seconde name is a ramage Falcon, and so she is called when she hath departed and left the eyrie. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xliv. 708 Iias-hawkes, are nothing so valiant as those which are taken long time after, and are called ramadge hawkes. 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention xii. 166 This Hawke is vtterly ramadge and wilde and not to bee taken by Call or Luer. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 118 Nor must you expect from high Antiquity the distinctions of Eyess and Ramage Hawks. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Faulconer, She [sc. a hawk] must sit unhooded if she be not Rammage. 1773 J. Campbell Treat. Mod. Faulconry 201 It is best to give them [sc. stones] at night to haggards and ramage-hawks. 1818 J. Wilson in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 586 While they continue in the eyrie, they are known called Eyesses, and afterwards are known by the different names of Ramage Hawks, Soar Hawks, [etc.]. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. I. 440/2 Faukun-ramage, a ramage hawk. 1891 L. Gaultier Chivalry v. 148 A falcon taken from its nest in the wild state is called a ramage falcon. b. In extended use of a person: wild, untamed. Obs. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 15v, You are become so wylde and rammage..As though you were a haggard Hawke. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D4v, She left from being so rammage, and..came to the fist, and granted me those fauours shee might affoord. a1613 T. Overbury Characters: Whore in Wks. (1856) 82 The first yeere of her trade she is an eyesse..the second a soare: the third a ramage whoore. 1652 J. Mayne tr. Donne Bk. Epigr. vi. 89 Though ramage grown, Th art still for carting fit. 1666 W. Austin Ἐπιλοίμια Ἔπη: Anat. Pestilence 16 They should be blamd, for being now so scard; As to leave City without welt or guard: Did not their flight their ramage prowess meet Friendly, and by their care prove it discreet. †3. Of a place: scrubby, thicketed; rough, uneven. Obs. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 527 Cerching, enquering in wodes ramage. 1788 Caledonian Mag. 1 500 He rumbld down a rammage glyde. 4. Of clothes, fabrics, etc.: adorned with a representation of branches or foliage. Cf. branched adj. 2b. 1579 in C. T. McInnes Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1978) XIII. 299 Item aucht elnis of rammage taffatie. 1603 in Lady M. Stewart Househ. Bk. (1815) 10 My goun of Ramach taftie. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Velvet, Ramage, or branchd Velvet, representing long Rinds, Branches, &c. on a Satin Ground. 1851 Official Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1022/1 Tapis and ramage shawls of various colours. 2006 Cabinet Maker (Nexis) 21 Apr. 16 Zoli Dino & Cs Mediterraneo collection is composed of seven different patterns: structures, ramage and multi colour stripes that can be joined together in a combination of bright modern colours.
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