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RAVEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
Synonyms:
Corvus corax; raven
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("raven" is a kind of...):
corvine bird (birds of the crow family)
Holonyms ("raven" is a member of...):
Corvus; genus Corvus (type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feed greedily
Example:
The lions ravened the bodies
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "raven" is one way to...):
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eat greedily
Example:
he devoured three sandwiches
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "raven" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Prey on or hunt for
Example:
These mammals predate certain eggs
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "raven" is one way to...):
forage (wander and feed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Obtain or seize by violence
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "raven" is one way to...):
seize (take or capture by force)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory—you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;—What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At two o’clock the raven could be seen approaching, and this time her coachman and everything about her, as well as her horses, were black.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
His form was of the same strong and stalwart contour as ever: his port was still erect, his hair was still raven black; nor were his features altered or sunk: not in one year's space, by any sorrow, could his athletic strength be quelled or his vigorous prime blighted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As she went in, a little dwarf came up to her, and said, “What are you seeking for?” “I seek for my brothers, the seven ravens,” answered she.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And far better that crows and ravens—if any ravens there be in these regions—should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The man promised to do all that she wished, but the raven said, “Alas! I know even now that you will take something from the woman and be unable to save me.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
At two o’clock the raven came driving along, drawn by her four white horses; but even before she reached the spot, she said to herself, sighing, “I know he has fallen asleep.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
As the raven drove along her four chestnut horses, she said sorrowfully to herself, “I know he has fallen asleep.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Towards two o’clock he went into the garden and on to the tan-heap to watch for the raven.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
