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A torrent of water. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The wife of a landgrave.

The wife of a margrave.

The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

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

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. [Texas & N. Mex.]

A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. Beach, bluff, and wave, adieu. Whittier.

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Shak.

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott.

A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end. [South Africa]

A steep ravine.

To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.