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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.

The quality of state or being brave.

struct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey.

One who contravenes.

The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation. Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley.

Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay.

Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.

The quality of being grave. His sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. Shak.

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

Within the veins.

Within or between ventricles.

Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts.

cate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.