A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven (Zoöl.), the cormorant.
Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
Rapine; rapacity. Ray.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
To obtain or seize by violence. Hakewill.
To devoir with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Shak.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.
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