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Raven :: Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Circumduct :: Circumduct (v. t.) To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature..

Contravening :: Contravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contraven.

Extravenate :: Extravenate (a.) Let out of the veins.

Corby :: Corby (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge..

Raven :: Raven (n.) Rapine; rapacity.

Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..

Ravine :: Ravine (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i..

Gourmand :: Gourmand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.

Croak :: Croak (v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound..

Raven''s-duck :: Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..

Raven :: Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

Raven :: Raven (a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness..

Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..

Raven :: Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.

Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..

Flock :: Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl..

Raphany :: Raphany (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism..

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