Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Ravelin (n.) 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.

(1) - Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
(2) - Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.
(3) - Raven (v. t.) To obtain or seize by violence.
(4) - Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
(5) - Raven (n.) Rapine; rapacity.
(6) - Raven (a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
(7) - Raven (n.) 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.

(1) - Ravener (n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.
(2) - Ravener (n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.

(1) - Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
(2) - Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
(3) - Ravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raven