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Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

The golden-eye.

Same as Rattlebox.

Ratlines.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

Hoarse; raucous [R.] Lamb.

Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.

Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. "His voice slightly raucous." Aytoun. -- Rau"cous*ly, adv.

imp. & p. p. of Reach. Shak.

See Ranch. Spenser.

Ransom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.

One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak.

One who ravels.

A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.

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.