Raven
WordNet
noun
(1) Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
verb
(2) Feed greedily
"The lions ravened the bodies"
(3) Eat greedily
"He devoured three sandwiches"
(4) Prey on or hunt for
"These mammals predate certain eggs"
(5) Obtain or seize by violence
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
Adjective
- Of the color of the raven; jet-black
- raven curls
- raven darkness
- She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
Etymology 2
From medieval French raviner 'rush, seize by force', itself from ravine 'rapine', from Latin rapina 'plundering, loot', itself from rapere 'seize, plunder, abduct'
Noun
- Rapine; rapacity.
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Verb
- (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
- To devour with great eagerness.
- To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
- The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent