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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..

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

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.

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

Devouring :: Devouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devou.

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Monitor :: Monitor (n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long..

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

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

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

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

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

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..

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

Edacious :: Edacious (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

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