Definition of "raven" []

• A large bird (Corvus corax) having black plumage and a croaking cry. (noun)
• Black and shiny: raven tresses. (adjective)
• To consume greedily; devour. (verb-transitive)
• To seek or seize as prey or plunder. (verb-transitive)
• To seek or seize prey or plunder. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'There is a little gristle,' says Tubervile, 'which is upon the spoone of the brisket, which we call the raven's bone; and I have seen in some places a raven so wont and accustomed to it, that she would never fail to croak and cry for it all the time you were in breaking up of the deer, and would not depart till she had it.'"
• "Said raven is named Mortimer and stars in a number of books by Joan Aiken (She of Wolves of Willoughby Chase fame)."
• "The part of the movie where they show Victoria running, and the raven is frozen in midair because she is supposed to be going so fast, I loved it."