ravenous

[Fr. ravineux.] 1. Furiously rapacious or voracious; hungry even to rage or fury. ( Ezek . xxxix. 4.) 2. Eager for gratification; as, a ravenous appetite. răv-en-oŭs-ly, adv. [Eng. ravenous; -ly.] In a ravenous manner; with furious voracity, hunger, or avidity. "Devours ravenously and without distinction whatever falls in its way."-Bolingbroke: Of Studying History , let. 4. "In this depth of muses and divers sorts of discourses, would she ravingly have remained." - Sidney: Arcadia . răv-Ish, *rav-esh, *rav-isch, *rav-i e, *ravysch, v . t . [Fr. ravi - , stem of ravi ant , pr. par. of ravir to ravish, from Lat. rapio to snatch; Ital. rapire .] 1. To snatch or seize and carry away by violence. "Those hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin." Shakesp.: Lear , iii. 7. 2. To transport with joy, pleasure, or delight; to enrapture, to enchant; to fill with ecstasy; to entrance. "The hearing of this is enough to ravish one's heart." -Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. 3. To have carnal knowledge of a woman against her will; to commit a rape upon; to violate; to deflower by violence. "The slaughter'd peasant and the ravish'd dame." Byron: Curse of Minerva. răv-Ish-er, s. [Eng. ravish; -er.] 1. One who takes or seizes by violence. ( Pope .) 2. One who or that which enraptures or transports with joy, pleasure, or delight; an enchanter. 3. One who ravishes or deflowers a woman against her will. ( Scott : Don Roderick , ix.) răv-Ish-ing, a . & s . [RAVISH.] A. As adjective : 1. Taking or seizing by violence. 2. Enchanting, transporting, entrancing. "Sung by a fair queen in summer's bower, With ravishing division to her lute." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . I. , iii. 1. 3. Compelling to submit to carnal intercourse. B. As substantive: 1. The act of one who ravishes. *2. Ecstatic delight, transport, rapture. "The ravish ings that sometimes from aboue do shoot abroad in the inward man."- Feltham : Resolves, pt. ii., res. 66. rawish răv Ish-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. ravishing ; -ly .] In a ravishing manner; so as to enrapture, enchant, or transport with joy, pleasure, or delight. "To heare a voice so ravishingly fair." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, x. răv-Ish-měnt, s. [Fr. ravi ement , from ravir =to ravish (q. v.).] 1. The act of seizing or taking away by violence; as, the ravishment of children from their parents. 2. Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. took with ravishment, "The harmony The thronging audience." - Milton : P. L. , ii. 554. 3. The act of ravishing or forcing a woman against her will; forcible violation of chastity; rape. "In bloody death and ravishment delighting." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 430. râw (1), a . & s. [A. S. hréaw, hrów; cogn. with Dut.raauw; Icel. hrár ; Dan. raa raw; Sw. ra = raw, green; O. H. Ger. rão; M. H. Ger. rou ; Ger. roh; Lat. crud us =raw.] A. As adjective : 1. Not altered from its original state by cooking: uncooked; not roasted, boiled, or otherwise cooked *2. Not distilled; as, raw water. ( Bacon .) 3. Not having undergone any industrial or manufacturing proce ; in the natural state; as(1) Not spun or twisted; not worked up. "Obliged to purchase raw silk of the Persians." -Ca ell's Technical Educator , pt. xi., p. 294. (2) Not tried, melted, or strained; as, raw tallow. (3) Not tanned; as, raw hides. *(4) Virgin, not yet cultivated. "It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon or gift."- Sumner : Social Cla es , ch. iii. 4. Undiluted, unmixed, unadulterated; as, raw spirits. 5. Applied to the original material of which anything is composed or formed. "The raw material out of which a good army may be formed existed in great abundance among the Irish."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. 6. Immature, unripe; hence, inexperienced, unseasoned, untried; unripe in skill. "Making war in any other way, we shall be raw and awkward recruits." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 7. Crude, immature. "His raw conceptions and fond reasonings."- Water land: Works, iv. 27. 8. Having the appearance of raw meat; having the flesh exposed by the rubbing off of the skin or natural covering. ( Levitic us xiii. 10.) 9. Inflamed, red. "Marion's nose looks red and raw ." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 2. 10. Sore, as if galled; sensitive. ( Spenser. ) 11. Bleak, chilly; cold and damp. "One morning, raw it was and wet." B. As substantive: Words worth: Sailor's Mother. IMG:content-0241.png:[blocks in formation] *râw-bone, a. [Eng. raw , a., and bone .] Rawboned. "With hollow eyes and rawbone cheeks forspent." Spenser: F. Q., IV. v. 34. râw-head, subst . [Eng. raw , a., and head .] A specter or goblin. "Servants awe children, and keep them in subjection, by telling them of rawhead and bloody bones." -Locke .