Devour

a. [Fr. dévorer; Lat. dévoro - de, and voro, to swallow whole. See VORACIOUS.] To eat up; to eat ravenously, or with greedine ; to consume with rapidity and violence; to swallow up gluttonously. Some evil beast hath devoured him."- Gen. xxxvii. 20. men of Virginia. His principal work, printed several years after his death, is A Digest of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations. D. in Paris, 1846. Dewart, in Pennsylvania, a post-office of North umber land co.