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Raven   /rˈeɪvən/   Listen
noun
Raven  n.  (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.
Sea raven (Zool.), the cormorant.


Raven  n.  (Written also ravin, and ravine)  
1.
Rapine; rapacity.
2.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.


verb
Raven  v. t.  (past & past part. ravened; pres. part. ravening)  
1.
To obtain or seize by violence.
2.
To devour with great eagerness. "Like rats that ravin down their proper bane."


Raven  v. i.  (Written also ravin, and ravine)  To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. "Benjamin shall raven as a wolf."


adjective
Raven  adj.  Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.





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"Raven" Quotes from Famous Books



... to explain his mission. While he was doing so the Grand Duke strolled to the basin and began to remove his make-up. He favoured, when on the stage, a touch of the Raven Gipsy No. 3 grease-paint. It added a picturesque swarthiness to his appearance, and made him look more like what he felt to be the popular ideal of a ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse
... heard, but three days passed before they reached the ocean. Three of the animals had died of starvation in the last stretch of the forest. The men had not eaten for two days, and devoted the first day on the beach to securing food. One shot a bald eagle; another found a raven devouring a cast-up fish, both of which he secured. All were stewed together, and a good night's sleep ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... a Dane: had even in his ardent youth been a follower of the Raven sign and the banner of the Landwaster, but having been wounded and left behind in a raid into England had been nursed by monks, and eventually had taken the ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease
... minutes of his arrival, Dudley found his way into the breakfast room, where Doreen, a pug dog and a raven were sitting together on the floor, surrounded by a frightful litter of paper and shavings and string, wooden boxes, hampers, and odds ...
— The Wharf by the Docks - A Novel • Florence Warden
... question did affect Scotland. Runciman had sketched out and commenced his twelve great pictures. 1. Ossian singing to Malvina. 2. The valour of Oscar. 3. The Death of Oscar, etc. etc. Who reads Ossian now? Who cares about Agandecca, 'with red eyes of tears'—'with loose and raven locks?' 'Starno pierced her side with steel. She fell like a wreath of snow which slides from the rocks of Ronan.' Who knows anything now about Catholda, and Corban Cargloss, and Golchossa and Cairbar of the gloomy brow? For ...
— Art in England - Notes and Studies • Dutton Cook


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