What does "raven" mean?
Raven: Rapine; rapacity. Ray.
Additional senses
- 2.Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- 3.To obtain or seize by violence. Hakewill.
- 4.To devoir with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Shak.
- 5.To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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