RAVEN
\ɹˈe͡ɪvən], \ɹˈeɪvən], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_v_ə_n]\
Definitions of RAVEN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
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prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
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feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies"
By Princeton University
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large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
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prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
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feed greedily
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
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Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
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Rapine; rapacity.
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To obtain or seize by violence.
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To devour with great eagerness.
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To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
By Oddity Software
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A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
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Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
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Rapine; rapacity.
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To obtain or seize by violence.
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To devour with great eagerness.
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To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
By Noah Webster.
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A large bird of the crow family, noted for its deep glossy black color.
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Jet black and shining.
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To devour with greediness.
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To devour prey with greediness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of crow, noted for its croak and plundering habits.
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Black, like a raven.
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To obtain by violence: to devour with great eagerness or voracity.
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To prey with rapacity.
By Daniel Lyons
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To prey with rapacity.
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Black as a raven.
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A large bird of the crow family.
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Prey; plunder; rapine. See Rapine.
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To devour with eagerness; to obtain by violence.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To capture by force; ravage.
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To eat voraciously; prey upon; tear.
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The act of plundering; spoliation. ravin.
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Black and shining, like the plumage of a raven.
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A large crow like bird.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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