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- English Word Ralstonite Definition A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
- English Word Ram Definition The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
- English Word Ram Definition Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
- English Word Ram Definition The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
- English Word Ram Definition An engine of war used for butting or battering.
- English Word Ram Definition In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
- English Word Ram Definition A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
- English Word Ram Definition A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
- English Word Ram Definition The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
- English Word Ram Definition The plunger of a hydraulic press.
- English Word Ram Definition To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
- English Word Ram Definition To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- English Word Ramadan Definition The ninth Mohammedan month.
- English Word Ramadan Definition The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
- English Word Ramage Definition Boughs or branches.
- English Word Ramage Definition Warbling of birds in trees.
- English Word Ramage Definition Wild; untamed.
- English Word Ramagious Definition Wild; not tame.
- English Word Ramal Definition Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
- English Word Ramayana Definition The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.