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A fine quality of sailcloth. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A genus of plants related to the banana.

One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower.

Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.

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

One who raves.

Ravenous. [Obs.] Shak.

Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. "Fowls of ravyne." Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson.

A torrent of water. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden.

One who ravishes (in any sense).

Rapturous; transporting.

In a ravishing manner.

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone.

In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.

Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.

A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.