Raven
- Proper noun. (given name, female) for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.
- Noun. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus ''Corvus'', especially the common raven, ''Corvus corax''.
- Adjective. Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
- Noun. Rapine; rapacity.
- Noun. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- Verb. (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
- Verb. To devour with great eagerness.
- Verb. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
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