ravin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.

   “Petra, through its rocky ramparts, was well suited, as Nineveh in the huge circuit of its massive walls was well built, to be the receptacle of ravin.”

2. isim Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation.

   “[T]he rage and furie of the barbarous nations brake out into a flaming fire: and like as vvild beaſts, vvont to live of ravine and prey vvhen keepers be ſlacke and negligent, […] vvithout regard of life, run upon vvhole heards and flockes of cattell: […]”

3. isim Gluttony, greed, rapacity; also, the quality of being predatory; predatoriness.

   “[W]ith hot Ravine fir'd, enſanguined Man / Is novv become the Lyon of the Plain, / And vvorſe.”

4. isim A predatory animal; a predator.

   “[…] Nurſe Amaranta / In a remove from Mora to Corduba / VVas ſeiz'd on by a fierce and hungry Bear, / She vvas the Ravins prey, as heaven ſo vvould, […]”

5. isim Obtaining or seizing property by force or violence; pillage, plunder, robbery; (countable, chiefly in the plural) an instance of this.

   “The. iiii. rule. […] If thou withdrawe thine handes, and forbere, / The rauens of anyething: remember than, / How his [Jesus's] innocent handes nailed were.”

6. isim That which a predatory animal seizes for food; prey; also (hunting) an animal which is hunted; quarry.

   “[H]is deepe deuouring iavves / VVyde gaped, like the grieſly mouth of hell, / Through vvhich into his darke abyſſe all rauin fell.”

7. sıfat Ravenous.

   “[…] I am the cauſe / His death vvas ſo effected: Better 'tvvere / I met the rauine Lyon vvhen he roar'd / VVith ſharpe conſtraint of hunger: better 'tvvere, / That all the miſeries vvhich nature ovves / VVere mine at once.”

8. fiil Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.

   “Hee changed his vvages tenne times, ſought to eat him vp, & to rauin all hee could get from him.”

9. fiil Sometimes followed by down, up, or (obsolete) in: to eat (something, such as food or prey) greedily; to devour, to wolf down.

   “Her princes in the middes thereof are like vvolues, rauening yͤ pray [prey] to ſhed blood, and to ſhed blood, and to deſtroye ſoules for their ovvne couetous lucre.”

10. fiil To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.

    “[S]he fenced them in their need / With iron-handed Duty's sternest creed, / 'Gainst Self's lean wolf that ravens word and deed.”

11. fiil Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.

    “Transferd by fortune to the Scottiſh meare, / To ranſack that, as it had been rauin'd heere.”

12. fiil To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.

    “He is an horrible lurtcher ſe howe he rauyneth: […]”

13. fiil Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.

    “Beniamin ſhal rauine as a vvolfe: in the morning, he ſhal deuoure the praie, and at night he ſhal diuide the ſpoile.”

14. fiil Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.

    “[B]ecause 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, […]”

15. fiil Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
16. fiil To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
17. fiil Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.

    “Iſa[belle]. She has qualmes too every morning: ravins mightily for green-fruit; and ſvvoones at the ſight of hot meat. / Non[such]. She's vvith Childe! I am undone: I am undone!”