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Ravelling
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Ravel
v. t.
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To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Ravel
v. t.
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To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
Ravel
v. t.
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To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
Ravel
v. i.
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To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
Ravel
v. i.
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To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Ravel
v. i.
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To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
Raveler
n.
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One who ravels.
Ravelin
n.
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A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
Raveling
n.
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The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
Raveling
n.
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That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
Raven
n.
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A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
Raven
a.
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Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
Raven
n.
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Rapine; rapacity.
Raven
n.
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Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Ravened
imp. & p. p.
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of Raven
Ravening
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Raven
Raven
v. t.
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To obtain or seize by violence.
Raven
v. t.
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To devour with great eagerness.
Raven
v. i.
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To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Ravenala
n.
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A genus of plants related to the banana.
Ravener
n.
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One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
Ravener
n.
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A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.
Ravening
n.
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Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Ravening
a.
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Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
Ravenous
a.
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Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
Ravenous
a.
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Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.
Raven's-duck
n.
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A fine quality of sailcloth.
Raver
n.
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One who raves.
Ravin
a.
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Ravenous.