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n.
A fine quality of sailcloth.
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.
a.
Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
a.
Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.
superl.
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Raven
a.
Ravenous.
imp. & p. p.
of Raven
v. t. & i.
See Raven, v. t. & i.
n.
Wolfish; ravenous.
a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
n.
Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.
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.
n.
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
a.
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
n.
Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
a.
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.
n.
One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
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