raven

Plunder; rapine; robbery; rapacity; furious violence.

Plunder; prey; food obtained with rapacity.

A bird of the larger species of the genus Corvus, having the feathers of the throat lanceolate and distinct from one another.

A kind of fish. See sea-raven and Hemitripteridæ.

Black as a raven; evenly and glossily or lustrously black: as, raven locks.

To seize with rapacity, especially food; prey upon; ravage. See ravined.

To subject to rapine or ravage; obtain or take possession of by violence.

To devour with great eagerness; eat with voracity; swallow greedily.

To prey with rapacity; show rapacity.

Applied in Australia to one of the larger crows, Corvus coronoides.