Raven

n.	1.	(Zool.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger, and has a harsh, loud call. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven (Zool.) the cormorant.
a.	1.	Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
n.	1.	Rapine; rapacity.
	2.	Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Ravened (răv"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ravening.]
	1.	To obtain or seize by violence.
	2.	To devour with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. - Gen. xlix. 27.

Noun	1.	raven - large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail Synonyms: Corvus corax
Verb	1.	raven - obtain or seize by violence
	2.	raven - prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs" Synonyms: prey, predate
	3.	raven - eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" Synonyms: guttle, pig, devour
	4.	raven - feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies"

To see a raven in your dream, symbolizes betrayal, disharmony, misfortune, and death.angry clouds, atramentous, batten, be ravenous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black cat, black clouds, bolt, bolt down, broken mirror, charcoal, coal, coal-black, coaly, cram, crow, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, depredate, despoil, devour, ebon, ebony, engorge, eye hungrily, feel hungry, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gathering clouds, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gut, guttle, guzzle, halcyon bird, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, ink, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, live to eat, loot, maraud, midnight, night, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, owl, pillage, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plunder, prey on, raid, rainbow, ransack, ravage, raven-black, ravish, reive, rifle, sable, sack, shooting star, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spoil, spoliate, starve, storm clouds, stormy petrel, stuff, sweep, tar, tar-black, tarry, thirst, thirst for, thundercloud, thunderhead, wolf, wolf down

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