Word Meanings - RAVEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
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A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus, Gr.
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- NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - NOTUM
The back. - RAVENER
1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland. - RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - NORTHERNMOST
Farthest north. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - RAVEN
1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. - NORTHERN
1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. -- - NOTELET
A little or short note; a billet. - BLACK FLAGS
An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their - NOTATION
1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system - RAVENING
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39. - BLACK-JACK
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. - NOTTURNO
See NOCTURNE - NOTCH
1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain. - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - MONOTESSARON
A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - HYPNOTIC
1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - PHONOTYPY
A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character. - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - MONOTONE
A single unvaried tone or sound. - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - HUGUENOTISM
The religion of the Huguenots in France. - KNOTWEED
See KNOT - COORDINATIVE
Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs. - MONOTHALMIC
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.