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Devouringly :: Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.

Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.

Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..

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

Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

Lickpenny :: Lickpenny (n.) A devourer or absorber of money.

Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Devouring :: Devouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devou.

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects..

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..

Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.

Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

Scavenger :: Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health..

Cannibal :: Cannibal (n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..

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