▪ I. † ˈrammis, a. Sc. Obs.
= rammist a.
| c 1450 Craft 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.
| a 1585 Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 511 [They] rammeist redwood, and raveld in their reeles. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vii. 1 He began..to rammise and rin wylde. 1607 in C. K. Sharpe Pref. Law's Mem. (1818) 55 She maid their two Kye run mad and rammish to deid. 1808 Jamieson, Rammis, to go about in a state approaching to frenzy. |