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Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle..

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..

Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..

Lamia :: Lamia (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch..

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

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

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.

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

Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..

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..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Mouse :: Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse..

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