rampacions 
A stone statue of MHne finnj>ir>-i',iiH animal with flowing 
mane and tail, distantly resembling an insane cart-horse. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xxii. 
rampadgeon (rnin-piVjon), . [< 
+ -on.] A furious, boisterous, or quarrelsome 
fellow. HalliirHI. [Prov. Kug.] 
rampage (ram'pfij or rani-pfij'), n. [< ramp + 
-age.'] A leaping or jumping about, as from 
auger or excitement; violent or furious move- 
ment; excited action of any kind: as, to be on 
the rampagf : to go on a rampage. [Colloq.] 
She 's been on the ram-paye this last spell about five 
minutes. IMckem, Great Expectations, ii. 
A diplomatist like Prince Bismarck, possessed of that 
faculty of plain speech, and out for the time on the ram- 
page, seems to Continental Courts a terror. 
Spectator (London), June 28, 1890. 
rampage (ram'paj or ram-paj'), v. i. ; pret. and 
pp. rampaged, ppr. rampaging. [Also (Be.)ram- 
pauge; < rampage, n.] 1. To act or move in 
a ramping manner; spring or rush violently; 
rage or storm about. [Colloq.] 
Were I best go to finish the revel at the Griffin? But 
then Maudie will rampauge on my return. 
Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, xvi. 
Now we will see how these rampaging Hurons lived 
when outlying in ambushments. 
J. F, Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xii. 
2. To run or prance about; move spriugily or 
friskily; romp; riot. [Colloq.] 
An' they rampaged about [on horseback] wi' their grooms, 
and was 'untin' arter the men. 
Tennyson, Village Wife, vii. 
How do you propose to go rampaging all over Scotland, 
and still be at Oban on the fifteenth? 
W. Black, Princess of Thule, xxvii. 
rampageous (rain-pa 'jus), a. [Also rampa- 
gious (and rampacious, q. v.); < rampage + 
-OMS.] 1. Of a ramping character; behaving 
rampantly; unruly; raging; boisterous; stormy. 
[Colloq.] 
The farmers and country folk [had] no cause to drive in 
their herds and flocks as in the primitive ages of a ram- 
payeous antiquity. Oalt, Provost, xv. (Dames.) 
A lion a mighty, conquering, generous, rampageous 
Leo Belgians. 
Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, A Week's Holiday. 
There 's that Will Maskery, sir, as is the rampageousest 
Methodis as can be. Qeorge Eliot, Adam Bede, v. 
Hence 2. Glaring or "loud" in style or taste; 
"stunning." [Colloq.] 
There conies along a missionary, . . . with a rampa- 
gious gingham. 
Daily Telegraph, Oct. 6, 1885. (Encyc. Diet.) 
The ornamentation is for the most part in rampageous 
rocaille style, bright burnished gold on whitewash or 
white imitation marble. Harper's Mag. , LXXIX. 200. 
rampageonsness (ram-pa'jus-nes), n. The 
character of being rampageous. [Colloq.] 
One there is, a lover-cousin, who out-Herods every one 
else in rampagiousness and lack of manners. 
Athenteum, No. 3249, p. 145. 
rampairt, v. t. [< F. remparer, fortify, inclose 
with a rampart : see rampire, rampart. ] To 
make secure; intrench; shield; cover. 
Theyr frame is raysed of excedynge hyghe trees, sette 
close together and fast rampaired in the grounde, so stand- 
yng a slope and bending inward that the toppes of the trees 
ioyne together. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 68). 
rampalliant, rampalliont (ram-pal'yan, -yon), 
n. [< ramp + -allian, -allion, a vague termina- 
tion of contempt, as in rapscallion, rumgallion.] 
Rapscallion ; villain ; rascal : a vituperative 
word. 
Away, you scullion ! you rampallian, you fustilarian ! 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 65. 
Out upon them, rampallions! Ill keep myself safe 
enough out of their fingers. 
Beau, and FI-, Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 2. 
I was almost strangled with my own band by twa ram- 
pallians, wha wanted yestreen ... to harle me into a 
change-house. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, xxvi. 
rampancy (rain'pan-si), n. [< rampan(t) + 
-ci/.] The state or quality of being rampant; ex- 
cessive activity; exuberance; extravagance. 
The pope had over mastered all, the temporal! power be- 
ing quite in a manner evacuated by the rampancy of the 
spiritual. 
Dr. a. More, Epistles to the Seven Churches, Pref. 
This height and rampancy of vice. South. 
rampant (ram'pant), a. [< ME. *rampant, also 
rampand, rampe'iid, < OF. rampant, ppr. otram- 
JM-I; creep, climb: see ramp.'] 1. Climbing or 
springing unchecked; rank in growth; exu- 
berant: as, rampant weeds. 
The cactus is here very abundant and rampant. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 95. 
2. Overleaping restraint or usual limits; un- 
bridled: unrestricted. 
4951 
He is tragical! on the Stage, but rampant in the Tyring- 
housc, and sweares oathes there which he neuer con'il. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Player. 
The custom of street-hawking is rampant in Spain. 
Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 19. 
Happily the love of red rags which is so rampant on 
either side of Parenzo, at Trieste and at Zara, seems not 
to have spread to Parenzo itself. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 104. 
The style of the pulpit in respect of imagery, I conceive, 
should be grave, severe, intense, not luxuriant, not ram- 
pant. A. Phelps, English Style, p. 144. 
They were going together to the Doncaster spring meet- 
ing, where Bohemianism would be rampant. 
Miss Braddon, Only a Clod, xxvi. 
3. Ramping; rearing. 
The tawny lion . . . springs, as broke from bonds, 
And rampant shakes his brinded mane. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 466. 
When he chaseth and followeth after other beasts, hee 
goeth alwaies saltant or rampant; which he neuer useth 
to doe when he is chased in sight, but is onely passant. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, viii. 16. 
4. In her., rising with both fore legs elevated, 
the dexter uppermost, and the 
head seen sidewise, the dexter 
hind leg also higher than the 
sinister, as if the weight of the 
creature were borne upon the lat- 
ter : noting a lion or other beast 
of prey. Also ramping, effraye. 
See also cut under affronte. Lion Rampant. 
Old Nevil's crest, 
The rampant bear chaiu'd to the ragged staff. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 208. 
Rampant affronte, rampant combatant. See coun- 
ter-rampant. 
Rampant arch, in 
arch., an arch whose 
imposts or abut- 
ments are not on the 
same level. Ram- 
pant bandage, a 
bandage applied in 
such a manner that 
the turns of the 
spiral do not touch 
each other, but 
leave uncovered "^3 
spaces between. iS3 
Rampant dis- 
played, in her., 
lacing directly out 
from the shield 
and seated on the 
haunches or raised 
erect on the hind 
legs, the fore paws 
extended : noting a 
lion or other beast 
of prey. Ram- 
pant gardant, in 
ner., having the 
same attitude as in 
rampant, but with 
the head turned so Rampant Arches, 
as to look directly d staircase of , he Nouvel o ^ 
out from the Shield Paris; /,. crowning arcade in facade of Sta! 
that is, affront^. Maria del Orto, Venice. 
Rampant in- 
dorsed. See counter-rampant. Rampant in full as- 
pect. Same as rampant displayed. Rampant passant, 
said of an animal when walking with the dexter fore paw 
raised somewhat higher than the mere passant position. 
Rampant regardant, in her., rampant, but with the 
head turned round, so that the creature looks In the di- 
rection of its tail. Rampant sejant, in her., seated 
on the hind quarters, but with the fore paws raised, the 
dexter above. Rampant vault. See vault. 
rampantly (ram'pant-li), adv. In a rampant 
manner. 
rampart (ram'part), n. [Early mod. E. also 
rampar, ramper, rampare, rampire, rampier; < 
OF. rempnrt (with excrescent t), rempar (F. 
rempart), a rampart of a fort, < remparer, de- 
fend, fortify, inclose with a rampart (F. rem- 
parer, refl., fortify oneself), < re-, again, + cm- 
parer, defend, fortify, surround, seize, take 
possession of (F. emparer, seize, take posses- 
sion of), < en- + purer, defend : see pare 1 , par- 
ry. Cf. It. riparo (= Pg. reparo), a defense, < 
riparare, defend, = Pg. reparar, repair, shel- 
ter: see repair*. Cf. parapet, which contains 
the same ult. verb.] 1. In fort., an elevation 
or mound of earth round a place, capable of 
resisting cannon-shot, and having the parapet 
raised upon it; a protecting enceinte; also, 
this elevation together with the parapet. The 
rampart is built of the earth taken out of the dftch. but 
the lower part of the outer slope is usually constructed of 
masonry. The top of the rampart behind the parapet 
should have sufficient width for the free passage of troops, 
guns, etc. See cut under parapet. 
Thrice . . . did he set up his banner upon the rampier 
of the enemy. Sir P. Siilneii, Arcadia, iii. 
When bands 
Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe arm'd, 
Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, 
Or cast a rampart. Hilton, P. L., i. 678. 
rampier 
The term rampart, though strictly meaning the mound 
on which the parapet stands, generally includes the para- 
pet itself. 
Brande and Cox, Diet, of Sci., Lit., and Art, III. 205. 
Hence 2. Something that serves as a bulwark 
or defense ; an obstruction against approach or 
intrusion ; a protecting iuclosure. 
What rampire can ray human frailty raise 
Against the assault of fate? 
Fletcher (and Massinger '!), Lovers' Progress, iv. 2. 
At length they reached an open level, encompassed on 
all sides by a natural rampart of rocks. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. 
Rampart gun. Seegwii.=8yn. See fortification. 
rampart (ram'part), v. t. [Formerly also ram- 
pire, ramper; < rampart, rampire, .] To forti- 
fy with ramparts ; protect by or as if by a ram- 
part; bolster; strengthen. 
Set but thy foot 
Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope. 
Shak., T. of A., v. 4. 47. 
Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, 
Proudly ramparted with rocks. 
Coleridge, Ode to the Departing Year, vii. 
'Neath rampired Solidor pleasant riding on the Rauce ! 
Browning, Herve Riel. 
rampart-grenade (ram'part-gre-nad*'), n. See 
grenade. 
rampart-slope (ram'part-slop), . In fort., the 
slope which terminates the rampart on the in- 
terior, connecting the terre-plein with the pa- 
rade; the ramp or talus. 
rampet, and n. An obsolete form of ramp. 
ramper 1 (ram'per), it. 1. An obsolete or dia- 
lectal form of rampart. 2. A turnpike road. 
Balliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Tamper 2 (ram'per), (. [<ramp + -erl.] A ruf- 
fian wh o infests race-courses. [Slang. ] Encyc. 
Diet. 
ramph-. Forwords beginning thus, see rliamnh-. 
rampick, rampike (ram'pik, ram'pik), n. [For- 
merly also ranpick, ranpike; appar. < ran- (iden- 
tified by some with ran- in ran-tree, roan-tree, 
mountain-ash (cf. rantle-tree)) + pick 1 orpike 1 .] 
A tree having dead boughs standing out of its 
top; any dead tree: also used attributively (in 
this use also rampicked). [Old and prov. Eng. ; 
U. S. and New Brunswick, in the form rampike.] 
When their fleeces gin to waxen rough, 
He combes and trims them with a rampicke bough. 
The Affectionate Shepheard (1594). (Halliwell.) 
The aged ranpick trunk where plow-men cast their seed. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 205. 
The march of the fire was marked next morning by ... 
hundreds of blackened trees which would never bud 
again. The sight of these bare and lifeless poles is a com- 
mon one here ; the poles are termed ram-pikes. 
W. F. Roe, Newfoundland to Manitoba, iii. 
rampicked (ram'pikt), a. [< rampick + -ed 2 .] 
See rampick. 
According to Wilbraham, a rampicked tree is a stag- 
headed tree, i. e. like an overgrown oak, having the stumps 
of boughs standing out of its top. Halliwell. 
rampiert, n. An obsolete form of rampart. 
rampike, n. See rampick. 
ramping (ram'ping),^. a. In her., same as ram- 
pant,^ 4. 
rampion (ram'pi-pn), n. [Appar. corrupted 
from It. ramponzolo, raperonzolo, raperonzo = 
Sp. reponche, ruiponce = Pg. raponto, ruiponto 
= OF. raiponce, reponce, raiponse = LG. rapnns- 
je = G. rapunzel = Sw. Dan. rapunzel (ML. ra- 
puncium), a plant, the Campanula Kapunculus, 
also the Phyteuma spicatum, < ML. rapuncultts, 
dim. of L. rapa, rapum, a turnip: see rape 9 . 
For the form, cf. Sp. rampion, a species of lo- 
belia.] 1. One of the bellflowers, Campanula 
Bapuneulus, a native of central and southern 
Europe, formerly much cultivated in gardens 
for its white tuberous roots, which were used as 
a salad. More fully garden rampion. 2. Auame 
of several plants of other genera Horned ram- 
pion, a general name of the species of Phyteuma, plants 
related to the bellflowers, and called horned because the 
slender corolla-lobes in some species remain long coherent 
in a conical beak. Large rampion, said to be a name of 
the evening primrose, (Enothera biennis, 
rampire, . and r. An obsolete or archaic vari- 
ant of rampart (which see). 
rampired (ram'plrd), . [< rampire + -ed 2 .] 
Furnished with ramparts. See quotations un- 
der rampart, v. 
rampishf (ram'pish),a. [< ramp + -ink*.] Ram- 
pant. Palsgrare. (Halliwell.) 
rampier (ramp'ler), n. and a. [Also ramplor; 
appar. equiv. to ramper 2 , lit. one who ramps, or 
to rambler, one who rambles or roves: see nim- 
per 2 , rambler.] I. n. A gay, roving, or unset- 
tled fellow. [Scotch.] 
He 's , a mischievous clever ramplor, and never 
devals with cracking his jokes on me. 
Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, I. 226. 
