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ˈrammist, a. Sc. Now rare. Also 5 -ysd. [? Alteration of ramage a. Cf. also rammis a. and v.] Mad, crazy, frantic.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 245 A woodman, a ramysde fule that for lytill gude wuld sett his lyf in perile. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 186 The residew..come..as rammist and wod creaturis, to have revengit the slauchter of their freindis. [Still used in Orkney and Shetland dial.] Hence † ˈrammistness, madness, frenzy. Obs.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S) 227 The quhilk duk..takis a woodnes and a ramysdness in his hede. |