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The inferior vena cava. -- Post"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.

The superior vena cava. -- Præ"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.

To bear down; to depress. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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.

The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

ng saved. In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable condition. Jer. Taylor.

Capability of being saved.

Salvation. [Obs.]

est; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

In a savage manner.

The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. Shak.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [Spelt also savannah.] Savannahs are clear pieces land without woods. Dampier. Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. -- Savanna sparrow (Zoöl.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus…

A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell.

Half savage.