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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, n. Ravenous. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
