rav'n.

ra’ven. A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus.

To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity. Our natures do pursue, like rats that raven down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die. Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey. Ezekiel 22:25.

To obtain by violence.

rav’n. To prey with rapacity. Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Genesis 49:27.

Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. Nahum 2:12.

Rapine; rapacity: .