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Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.

Tiger-footed :: Tiger-footed (a.) Hastening to devour; furious.

Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects..

Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..

Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.

Self-devouring :: Self-devouring (a.) Devouring one's self or itself.

Devouringly :: Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.

Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..

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..

Scavenger :: Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health..

Devourable :: Devourable (a.) That may be devoured.

Raven :: Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.

Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..

Roseworm :: Roseworm (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds..

Devourer :: Devourer (n.) One who, or that which, devours..

Devoration :: Devoration (n.) The act of devouring.

Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..

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