Rav"in (?), n.
Ravenous.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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Rav"in, Ravine (?), n. [See 2d Raven.]
Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
"Fowls of ravyne."
Chaucer.
Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
Tennyson.
<-- famous quote from In memoriam, 56, st. 4 -->
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Rav"in, Rav"ine, v. t. & i.
See Raven, v. t. & i.
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