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n. A large bird (Corvus corax) having black plumage and a croaking cry.

adj. Black and shiny: raven tresses.

v. To consume greedily; devour.

v. To seek or seize as prey or plunder.

verb-intransitive. To seek or seize prey or plunder.

verb-intransitive. To eat ravenously.

n. Variant of ravin.

n. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

adj. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

n. Rapine; rapacity.

n. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

v. To obtain or seize by violence.

v. To devour with great eagerness.

v. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

n. 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.

adj. Of the color of the raven; jet black

n. Rapine; rapacity.

n. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

v. To obtain or seize by violence.

v. To devour with great eagerness.

verb-intransitive. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

n. A bird of the larger species of the genus Corvus, having the feathers of the throat lanceolate and distinct from one another.

n. A kind of fish. See sea-raven and Hemitripteridæ.

Black as a raven; evenly and glossily or lustrously black: as, raven locks.

n. Plunder; rapine; robbery; rapacity; furious violence.

n. Plunder; prey; food obtained with rapacity.

To seize with rapacity, especially food; prey upon; ravage. See ravined.

To subject to rapine or ravage; obtain or take possession of by violence.

To devour with great eagerness; eat with voracity; swallow greedily.

To prey with rapacity; show rapacity.

n. Applied in Australia to one of the larger crows, Corvus coronoides.

v. prey on or hunt for

v. feed greedily

v. eat greedily

v. obtain or seize by violence

n. large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

"'There is a little gristle,' says Tubervile, 'which is upon the spoone of the brisket, which we call the raven's bone; and I have seen in some places a raven so wont and accustomed to it, that she would never fail to croak and cry for it all the time you were in breaking up of the deer, and would not depart till she had it.'"

ravens   

forage    feed    eat    seize    corvine bird   

English collective nouns   

ravening    ravenous    ravenousness    ravenously    ravener   

ravin    ravine   

ravened    ravening    raven-haired    raven-black    raven standard   

rapine    rapacity    prey    plunder    prowl    eat   

Cavan    Laven    Sarajevan    craven    graven    haven    maven    shaven    unshaven   

corncrake    beanstalk    bullfrog    hobbledehoy    feculence    lustrum    conciliator    pelican    sojourning    bobcat