▪ I. rame, n.1 Now only dial.
(reɪm)
[Perh. = MDu. rame (Du. raam), OHG. rama (MHG. ram, rame, G. rahm, rahmen) frame, framework.]
a. (Chiefly pl.) The bones or skeleton (of a human being or animal). b. dial. The mere skeleton or framework (of a thing); also, dried stalks.
| 1497 Will of Otteley (Somerset Ho.), Where my wif lieth buried so that the bones of her be not digged up but to ly upon the Rame of the same bones. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 40 b, Naturall fooles do detest the stincking Rames..of that Rebellious traytour. Ibid. 460 b, Would any man dought but that her Rames [L. ossa] would have bene bragged upon. 1847 in Halliwell. 1880– in south-western glossaries (Glouc., Som., Devon, Cornwall). |
▪ II. rame, n.2 rare.
(reɪm)
[a. F. rame:—L. rāmus branch, ramus.]
A branch of a tree or shrub; also transf. of a nerve, etc.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man viii. 109 [This] braunch [of nerve]..is reflected aboue the wrest, there into three proper rames specially deuided. [1858 O. W. Holmes Aestivation i. in Aut. Breakf.-t. 255 The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames.] a 1893 T. Heney Wood Notes xi. (Funk), The Wattles crown With golden down Their sombre rames. |
▪ III. rame, n.3 Sc.
(reːm)
Also rhame.
[f. rame v.1]
A cry; a continuous repetition of the same words or sound. (Cf. rane n.)
| 1808 Jamieson s.v., It is said of one, He has ay ae rame, when he continues to cry for the same thing or to repeat the same sound. 1822 Hogg Perils of Man I. 244 The poet can bring out naething but rhames o'..nonsense. |
▪ IV. rame, v.1 Sc. and north. dial.
(reːm)
Also 6 raym, 9 rhame, raim, ream.
[Prob. f. ON. hreim-r a scream, cry.]
1. intr. To shout, cry aloud, scream; dial. to keep up the same cry, to continue repeating the same thing. (Cf. rane v.)
| c 1470 Gol. & Gaw. 693 The roy ramyt for reuth. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. x. 76 Thay rame and cry fast on the King Latyne. c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 51 Ȝe rame as ȝe wer rent. 1808 in Jamieson. 1829 in Brockett. 1876– in northern glossaries (Yks., Northumb.). |
2. trans. † a. To obtain by persistent asking. Obs.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lx. 33 Sum ramyis ane rokkat fra the roy. |
b. To repeat, run over.
| 1818 Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 76 She'll rhame o'er bladds o' scripture to them. 1822 ― Perils of Man II. 262, I heard Will..rhaming o'er the names o' a' the saints he had ever heard of. |
Hence † ˈraming vbl. n. Obs.
| 1513 Douglas æneis v. vi. 94 With loude ramyngis and with mony a schout. 1551 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) 487 Nane of thame may pas throw the streittis for raming and crying vpone thame. |
▪ V. † rame, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
(Sense not clear.)
| c 1205 Lay. 7854 Þa Rom-leoden rameden ȝeond uþen. |
▪ VI. rame
obs. form of ram.