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Rook :: Rook (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper..

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..

Ravening :: Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves..

Water Devil :: Water devil () The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle..

Raptorial :: Raptorial (a.) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird..

Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves..

Accipiter :: Accipiter (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

Theropoda :: Theropoda (n. pl.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies..

Large-handed :: Large-handed (a.) Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful..

Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..

Kite :: Kite (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.

Swoopstake :: Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping..

Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Ferocious :: Ferocious (a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion..

Vulture :: Vulture (n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae..

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