Raven

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: rav=en

CIDE DICTIONARY

Raven, n. [AS. hræfn; akin to D. raaf, G. rabe, OHG. hraban, Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus, Gr. ko`rax.

 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.  [1913 Webster]

Sea raven (Zoöl.), the cormorant.

Raven, a. 

 Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.  [1913 Webster]

Raven, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See Ravine, Rapine.].

•  Rapine; rapacity.  Ray.  [1913 Webster]
•  Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.  [1913 Webster]

Raven, v. t. [Written also ravin, and ravine.].

•  To obtain or seize by violence.  Hakewill.  [1913 Webster]
•  To devour with great eagerness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Like rats that ravin down their proper bane."  [1913 Webster]

Raven, v. i. 

 To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.  [1913 Webster]
"Benjamin shall raven as a wolf."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Raven, n. & adj.
--n. a large glossy blue-black crow, Corvus corax, feeding chiefly on carrion etc., having a hoarse cry.
--adj. glossy black (raven tresses).

Raven, v.
1 intr. a plunder. b (foll. by after) seek prey or booty. c (foll. by about) go plundering. d prowl for prey (ravening beast).
2 a tr. devour voraciously. b intr. (usu. foll. by for) have a ravenous appetite. c intr. (often foll. by on) feed voraciously.

Etymology

OF raviner ravage ult. f. L rapina RAPINE

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Raven

Gluttony

N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.

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