An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

3. Harsh to the taste, S. B.

Norw. romms, rank; Isl. rammr, bitter.

RAM-STAM, adj. Forward, thoughtless, S.
Burns.

Ram-stam, adv. Precipitately, S.

Ram, and staemm-a, tendere.

RAMUKLOCH. To sing ramukloch, to cry.
Bannatyne Poems.

Gael. ra, denoting motion, muich, sadness, and loch, dark, or laoi, day; q. "deep sorrow," or "the day of sadness comes."

To RANCE, v. a. To prop with stakes, S.

Su. G. raenn-a, to fasten a door with a stake.

Rance, s.
1. A wooden prop, S.
2. The cross bar which joins the lower part of the frame of a chair together. Ang.
3. The cornice of a wooden bed, S.