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▪ I. † ˈrammis, a. Sc. Obs.
= rammist a.
c1450Craft of Deyng 113 in Ratis Raving 4 Sa mony of thir men gangis rammys.
▪ II. † ˈrammis, v. Sc. Now rare or Obs.
Also 6 -ise, -eis, 7 -ish.
[prob. a back-formation from rammist a.]
intr. To behave frantically, to rush wildly about.
a1585Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 511 [They] rammeist redwood, and raveld in their reeles. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vii. 1 He began..to rammise and rin wylde. 1607in C. K. Sharpe Pref. Law's Mem. (1818) 55 She maid their two Kye run mad and rammish to deid. 1808Jamieson, Rammis, to go about in a state approaching to frenzy. |