raven
raven is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Rapine; rapacity. Ray.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- and
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- appetite
- atramentous
- avarice
- avaricious
- bated
- belly
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blot
- blotch
- blow
- bolt
- bon
- breath
- breathless
- broken
- buck
- charcoal
- cheer
- chiaroscuro
- childish
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- cormorant
- cracked
- cram
- crapulence
- crapulent
- crow
- cuisine
- cut
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is raven.
- What is prey; plunder; food obtained by violence called?
- What is to obtain or seize by violence. Hakewill called?
- What is to devoir with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Shak called?
- What is to prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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