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act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. In our madness evermore we rave. Chaucer. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast Addison. The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie. Macaulay.

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

ure 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.

tive of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven (Zoöl.), the cormorant.

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.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.

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

One who raves.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

The quality of state or being brave.