Definition of raven

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Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

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Gourmand :: Gourmand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
Lepidomelane :: Lepidomelane (n.) An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica..
Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..
Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Sculptile :: Sculptile (a.) Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images..
Corby :: Corby (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge..
Ravenala :: Ravenala (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.
Corby :: Corby (n.) The raven.
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..
Contravened :: Contravened (imp. & p. p.) of Contraven.
Paraunter :: Paraunter (adv.) Peradventure. See Paraventure.
Craven :: Craven (a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..
Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire..
Cravening :: Cravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crave.
Ralph :: Ralph (n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.
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..
Craven :: Craven (v. t.) To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly..
Edacity :: Edacity (n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..
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