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Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.

See Covinous, and Covin.

Within the veins.

Containing leaven. Milton.

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

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.] This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.

ity or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

Ravenous; voracious. Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth.

to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.