ramage

1. obsoleteof a person or thing: wild; untamed
2. obsoleteof a place or terrain: scrubby, thicketed, rough

plural ramages

1. wildness, spirit, courage, ferocity
2. anthropologyA cognatic descent group.

   Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority[…]

   1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273

3. archaicBoughs or branches.

   That beneficent stem[…] From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.

   1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic

4. archaicThe warbling of birds in trees.

   And birds on thee their ramage did bestow

   1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Sonnet”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains

plural Ramages

1. A surname.