raven
9 definitions found
raven - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Raven \Ra"ven\, a.
Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven
darkness.
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Raven \Rav"en\ (r[a^]v"'n), n. [OF. ravine impetuosity,
violence, F. ravine ravine. See Ravine, Rapine.] [Written
also ravin, and ravine.]
1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray.
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2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravened (r[a^]v"'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Ravening.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill.
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2. To devour with great eagerness.
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Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak.
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
[Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix.
27.
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Raven \Ra"ven\ (r[=a]"v'n), n. [AS. hr[ae]fn; akin to D. raaf,
G. rabe, OHG. hraban, Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to
L. corvus, Gr. ko`rax. [root]19.] (Zool.)
A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the
crow, but larger, and has a harsh, loud call. It is native of
the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted
for its sagacity.
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Sea raven (Zool.), the cormorant.
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raven - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
raven
n 1: large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped
tail [syn: raven, Corvus corax]
v 1: obtain or seize by violence
2: prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
[syn: raven, prey, predate]
3: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour,
guttle, raven, pig]
4: feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies"
raven - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Raven
Heb. 'orebh, from a root meaning "to be black" (comp. Cant.
5:11); first mentioned as "sent forth" by Noah from the ark
(Gen. 8:7). "Every raven after his kind" was forbidden as food
(Lev. 11:15; Deut. 14:14). Ravens feed mostly on carrion, and
hence their food is procured with difficulty (Job 38:41; Ps.
147:9). When they attack kids or lambs or weak animals, it is
said that they first pick out the eyes of their victims (Prov.
30:17). When Elijah was concealed by the brook Cherith, God
commanded the ravens to bring him "bread and flesh in the
morning, and bread and flesh in the evening" (1 Kings 17:3-6).
(See ELIJAH.)
There are eight species of ravens in Palestine, and they are
everywhere very numerous in that land.
raven - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Raven, KY
Zip code(s): 41844, 41861
Raven, VA (CDP, FIPS 65744)
Location: 37.09416 N, 81.86203 W
Population (1990): 2640 (1062 housing units)
Area: 16.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24639
raven - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "raven":
angry clouds, atramentous, batten, be ravenous, black,
black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight,
black as night, black cat, black clouds, bolt, bolt down,
broken mirror, charcoal, coal, coal-black, coaly, cram, crow, dark,
dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, depredate, despoil,
devour, ebon, ebony, engorge, eye hungrily, feel hungry, fleece,
forage, foray, freeboot, gathering clouds, glut, gluttonize,
gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gut, guttle, guzzle,
halcyon bird, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, ink, ink-black,
inky, jet, jetty, live to eat, loot, maraud, midnight, night,
night-black, night-dark, nigrous, owl, pillage, pitch, pitch-black,
pitch-dark, pitchy, plunder, prey on, raid, rainbow, ransack,
ravage, raven-black, ravish, reive, rifle, sable, sack,
shooting star, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot,
spoil, spoliate, starve, storm clouds, stormy petrel, stuff, sweep,
tar, tar-black, tarry, thirst, thirst for, thundercloud,
thunderhead, wolf, wolf down
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