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Limosis :: Limosis (n.) A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.

Sharp-set :: Sharp-set (a.) Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set..

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three..

Gormand :: Gormand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

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

Raphany :: Raphany (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism..

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire..

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..

Fell :: Fell (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.

Flock :: Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl..

Greedy :: Greedy (superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey..

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

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

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..

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..

Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

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

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..

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

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