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raven englanniksi
(senseid) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus ''Corvus'' with lustrous black plumage; especially the raven ((taxfmt)).
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(RQ:Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Q1)
(RQ:Marlowe Jew of Malta)
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain)|footer=Compare (senseno).
(RQ:Guillim Heraldrie) III. Chap(quote-gloss) XX.|page=162|passage=Hee beareth ''Or'', a ''Rauen Proper'', by the name of ''Corbet''.|footer=Used as a charge on a coat of arms.
(RQ:Shelley Poetical Works)
(RQ:Scott Pirate)
(RQ:Audubon Ornithological Biography)
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(RQ:Poe Raven)
(RQ:Lowell Fable for Critics), / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths fudge, / (..) / Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, / But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, (..)
(RQ:Tennyson Idylls)
(senseid) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven ''((senseno))''.
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(quote-book) Warren F. Draper|page=314|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/natalieorgemamon00valeiala/natalieorgemamon00valeiala/page/n319/mode/1up|oclc=36254678|passage=A lone man walks the shores of Nantucket; his noble form is slightly bent, and with the raven of his hair is blended the faintest tinge of gray, though he is evidently a man to whom the meridian of life is yet far in the distance; (..)
''Usually preceded by a descriptive word'': a bird from a genus other than ''Corvus'' that resembles the raven ''((senseno))'', especially in having black plumage; also, an imaginary black bird.
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth) As ſoon as the raven approaches, the puffin catches him under the throat vvith its beak, and ſticks its clavvs into his breaſt, vvhich makes the raven, vvith a loud ſcreaming, attempt to get avvay; (..)
(senseid) A flag bearing a raven ''((senseno))'', formerly used by some Viking leaders
(RQ:Thomson Mallet Alfred)
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A person who brings bad news or makes pessimistic predictions.
(RQ:Rowley New Wonder). Novv y'ave ſpoke it halfe; 'tis ſinking I muſt treate of; / Your ſhips are all ſunke. / (..) / ''M''(quote-gloss) ''Foſt''(quote-gloss). O thou fatall Raven; Let me pull thine eyes out for this / Sad croake.
(RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise). O my dear Lord, upon this onely day / Depends the ſeries of your follovving Fate: / Think your good Genius has aſſum'd my ſhape / In this Prophetick doom. / ''Guiſe''. Peace croaking Raven, / I'le ſeize him firſt, then make him a led Monarch; (..)
(RQ:Burke State of the Nation)
Especially of hair: of the jet-black and often glossy colour of the plumage of a raven ''((senseno))''.
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(RQ:Milton Comus)
(RQ:Thomson Summer)
(RQ:Gray Poems) ſhall Rinda bear, / VVho ne'er ſhall comb his raven-hair, (..)
(RQ:Southey Thalaba)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein) I beheld a countenance of angelic beauty and expression. Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.
(RQ:Conrad Nostromo)
(RQ:Chesterton Wisdom of Father Brown) Scott's great tragedy; (..)
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''Sometimes followed by'' away ''or'' from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.
(RQ:Sleidanus Daus Commentaries) aſſaulted by night a certen aũciẽt (quote-gloss) gentleman at home in his owne houſe, which had done thē (quote-gloss) no diſpleaſure, and being a ſlepe in his bed at their cõming (quote-gloss), whan he had hardly eſcaped awaye half naked, rauening and diſtroying his goodes, they ſpoyled his wyfe and chyldren of all theyr apparell, and threatening them ofte with death, left thẽ (quote-gloss) ſtarck naked, in ſo muche that one of the Nobilitie comming thither by chaunce, couered the woman with his owne garment.
''Sometimes followed by'' down'','' up'', or'' in: to eat (something, such as food or prey) greedily; to devour, to down.
(RQ:Geneva Bible) to ſhed blood, ''and'' to ſhed blood, ''and'' to deſtroye ſoules for their ovvne couetous lucre.
(RQ:Knolles Turkes) haſtily vp as their fees, and like greedie Harpies rauened it dovvne in a moment.
(RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes) barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted.
(RQ:Brathwait Strappado), / came to the fount, his blood to vvaſh avvay.
(RQ:Rabelais Gargantua) if you will but set me to work, it will be as good as a balsamum for sore eyes to see me gulch and raven it, for Gods sake, give order for it.
(RQ:Dante Cary Vision) I beheld two spirits by the ice / Pent in one hollow, that the head of one / Was cowl unto the other; and as bread / Is raven'd up through hunger, th' uppermost / Did so apply his fangs to th' other's brain, / Where the spine joins it.
(RQ:Keats Endymion)
To absorb or in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
(RQ:Lowell Three Memorial Poems)
(RQ:D. Smith Castle)'s are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of ''(w)'', simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
''Followed by'' about'','' after'', or'' for: to after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also , to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
(RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments)
(RQ:Girard Cotton Espernon)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich) Daun in Wrestle with Friedrich in the Silesian Hills|pages=92–93|pageref=92|passage=A scandal to be seen, how his Croats and loose hordes went openly ravening about, bent on mere housebreaking, street-robbery and insolent violence.
To eat greedily; also, ''followed by'' on ''or'' upon: of an animal: to on.
(RQ:Elyot Preservative)
(quote-book)|location=&91;(lg)&93;|publisher=&91;(lg)&93;|year_published=1920s?|page=154|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/daphnischloetran00longuoft/page/154/mode/1up|oclc=697712161|passage=For he (quote-gloss) had doubled the number (quote-gloss) he had received of Lamo, nor had the Wolf raven'd away so much as one, and they were all more twaddling fat then the very sheep.
(RQ:Somerville Ross Real Charlotte) were permitted to raven unchecked upon chicken bones, fat slices of ham, and luscious leavings of cream when the packing-up time came.
(RQ:Dunsany Pegana)
(RQ:Wodehouse Code)
''Sometimes followed by'' about ''or'' on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
(RQ:More Apocalypsis) are his ſtrength and inſtrument of action to raven and prey vvith; (..)
''Sometimes followed by'' after ''or'' for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Okes|Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison,(nb...)|year_published=1610|page=273|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-first-booke-of-catte_mascall-leonard_1610/page/275/mode/1up|oclc=228716450|passage=Because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or elſe they will doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes, (..)
(RQ:Gaskell Lizzie Leigh)|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Baring-Gould Were-wolves)
''Originally followed by'' with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy) ſhall I knovv thee to be a man, vvhen thou kickeſt like an aſſe, neygheſt like an Horſe after vvomen, raueſt in luſt like a Bull, raueneſt like a Beare, ſtingeſt like a Scorpion, rakeſt like a VVolfe, as ſuttle as a Foxe, as impudent as a Dogge; ſhall I ſay thou art man that haſt all the Symptomes of a beaſt?
''Sometimes followed by'' after ''or'' for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
(RQ:Baring-Gould Roar of the Sea)
(quote-book)|year_published=February 1932|section=Act III|page=237|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.504111/page/n239/mode/1up|oclc=827670712|passage=Take your conscience—what is the choice? On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin' millions ravening for pornographic dirt.
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