Ramp. A curve (S.).—S.W.

Ramping. Tall, as 'a rampin' gel.'—N.W.

*Randin. Riotous living.—N.W. (Malmesbury.)

Randy. (1) n. A noisy merry-making (S.).—N. & S.W. (Malmesbury, etc.) (2) n. 'On the randy,' living in a riotous or immoral manner.—N. & S.W. (3) adj. A woman who used to be a regular attendant at all the tea-meetings and other gatherings of the kind in her neighbourhood in N. Wilts was usually spoken of as being 'a randy sort o' a 'ooman'—randy apparently being there applied to such gatherings.

*Range. Two drifts or rows of felled underwood (D.).

Rangle. To twine round anything as a climbing plant does.—S.W. (Som. bord.)

Rank, Ronk. (1) Audacious. 'Hands off! Thee bist a bit too ronk!'—N.W. (2) Outrageous, as applied to a fraud or a lie.—N.W.

*Rannel. adj. Ravenously hungry.—N.W.

'A man comes in rannel vor 's food, and plaguey little dacent vittles can a get.'—Dark, ch. ii.