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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..

Contravened :: Contravened (imp. & p. p.) of Contraven.

Corby :: Corby (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge..

Graven :: Graven (v. t.) Carved.

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Edacity :: Edacity (n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

Ravener :: Ravener (n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders..

Hornbill :: Hornbill (n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals..

Braveness :: Braveness (n.) The quality of state or being brave.

Contravening :: Contravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contraven.

Contravene :: Contravene (v. t.) To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law..

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

Intraventricular :: Intraventricular (a.) Within or between ventricles.

Contravener :: Contravener (n.) One who contravenes.

Gormandize :: Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

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

Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..

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..

Ravine :: Ravine (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

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