ravenert (ravner)

[ We scorne swich raviners and honters of fouleste thinges. Chaucer , Boëthius, i. prose 3. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. 2. A bird of prey. Holland . ravening (rav'n-ing), n. [Verbal n. of raven2 , v .] Eagerne for plunder; rapacity. And then he is such a ravener after fruit. Your inward part is full of ravening [ extortion , R. V.] and wickedne . Luke xi. 39. raveningly (rav'n-ing-li), adv. In a ravening or ravenous manner; voraciously; greedily. Liguirire somtymes is auidè and helluosè, that is griedily and raueninglye or gluttonously to devour very much. Udall, Flowers, fol. 98. ravenous (rav'n-us), a. [ I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field, to be devoured. Ezek. xxxix. 4. I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee! Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 31. 2. Greedily eager for gratification; tending to rapacity or voracity: as, ravenous appetite or desire. Thy desires Are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous . Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 138. =Syn. Voracious, etc. See rapacious. ravenously (rav'n-us-li), adv. In a ravenous manner; with raging voracity. ravenousne (rav'n-us-nes), n. The state or character of being ravenous; furious avidity; rage for prey. The ravenousne of a lion or bear are natural to them. Sir M. Hale. ravenry (rā'vn-ri), n.; pl. ravenries (-riz). [ Nothing short of a reward given on the hatching-off of a ravenry would insure protection. Nature, XXXVII. 602. 4977 As old decrepite persons, yong Infantes, fooles, Madmen, and Ravers. Touchstone of Complexions , p. 94. ( Davies .) raverył (rā'ver-i), n. [ resverie , raving, dreaming: see ravel , and cf. reverie .] The act raw And the gret fray that the [they] mad in the tyme of ma e it ravyched my witts and mad me ful hevyly dysposyd. Paston Letters , II. 81. These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin, Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak., Lear, iii. 7. 38. or expre ion; a raving. Reject them not as the raveries of a child. Sir J. Sempill , Sacrilege Sacredly Handled, Int. (Davies.) ravint (rav'in), n. and v. See raven2. ravinel, n. Same as raven2. ravine2 (ra-ven'), n. [ A ravine , or inundation of waters, which over cometh all things that come in its way. Cotgrave. 2. A long deep hollow worn by a stream or tor- rent of water; hence, any deep narrow gorge, as in a mountain; a gully. Syn. 2. Glen, Gorge, etc. See valley. ravinedt (rav'ind), a. [Irreg. ravin , raven2 , +-ed2.] Ravenous. Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark. into a state of ecstasy, as of delight or fear. Sore were all their mindes rauished wyth feare, that in maner half beside themselves they said Golding, tr. of Cæsar, fol. 173. Thou hast ravished my heart. Cant. iv. 9. The view of this most sweet Paradise [Mantua]. did even ravish my senses. Coryat, Crudities, I. 145. My friend was ravished with the beauty, innocence, and sweetne that appeared in all their faces. Add is on, Freeholder, No. 47. 3. To deprive by seizure; dispo e violently: with of . They may ravish me o ' my life, But they canna banish me fro' Heaven hie. Hughie the Graeme (Child's Ballads, VI. 57). And am I blasted in my bud with treason? Boldly and basely of my fair name ravish'd ? Beau . and Fl . , Knight of Malta, ii. 5. 4. To violate the chastity of; commit rape upon; deflower. Their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished . Isa. xiii. 16. My heroes slain, my bridal bed o'erturn'd, My daughters ravish'd , and my city burn'd, My bleeding infants dash'd against the floor. Pope , Iliad, xxii. 89. IMG:content-1679.jpg:[blocks in formation] raving (ra'ving), p. a. 1. Furious with delirium; mad; distracted.-2. Fit to excite admiration or enthusiasm; hence, amazing, intense, superlative, or the like. [Colloq. or slang.] A letter of raving gallantry, which Orlando Furioso himself might have penned, potent with the condensed e ence of old romance. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 262. The veterans liked to recall over the old Madeira the wit and charms of the raving beauties who had long gone the way of the famous vintages of the cellar. New Princeton Rev. , I. 6. ravingly (ra'ving-li), adv. In a raving manner; with furious wildne or frenzy; distract edly. Raven sara (rav-en-sa'rä), n. [NL. (Sonnerat, 1782), fruit, and a seed with six lobes descending into as many false cells of the pericarp. The 3 or 4 species are smooth aromatic trees of Madagascar. R. aromatic a has a clove like fragrance throughout, and its fruit, called clove - nut meg or raven sara - nut, is used in Madagascar as a spice. raven's-duck (rā'vnz-duk), n. A fine kind of hempen sail-cloth. raven stone (rā'vn-stōn), n . [Tr. G. rabenstein , a gallows (also a black stone), rabe , = E.raven , + stein E.stone : so called as a place where ravens (birds of ill omen) and vultures congregate. Cf. D. raven - kop , hangman, lit. 'raven-head': see raven1 and stone1 .] A gallows. [Rare.] To and fro, as the night-winds blow, The carca of the a a in swings; And then alone, on the raven - stone , The raven flaps his dusky wings. Byron, Manfred (first MS.), iii.