(Lancashire) The money given to hunters, at the death of a fox, in order to buy ale.
(Scotland and Northern England, now rare) A funeral feast or wake at which bread and ale was served, traditional in Scotland, the North of England, and among the Norse.
(rare, chiefly historical) The ale served at such a wake, the drinking of which was a ritually significant act in Norse culture.
arvel
arvel
noun
Alternative spelling of arval
arvid
arvie
arvie
noun
(Australia, informal) Afternoon.
arvin
arvol
arvos
arvos
noun
plural of arvo
avars
avars
noun
plural of avar
avera
averi
avern
avers
avers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aver
avert
avert
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
(transitive) To turn aside or away.
(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
avery
avery
Proper noun
name, today often transferred back from the surname.
name of modern usage.
avner
avoir
avour
avram
avril
avrit
avrom
avron
bever
bever
noun
(now rare, archaic) A snack or light refreshment between meals.
A drink.
A mixture of cider and water.
A time for drinking.
Alternative spelling of bevor
Obsolete form of beaver.
verb
(intransitive) To tremble; shake; quiver; shiver.
(obsolete) To take a light repast between meals.
bevor
bevor
noun
(historical) A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.
brava
brava
intj
Alternative form of bravo spoken to a female performer
noun
A shout of "brava!".
brave
brave
adj
(UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.
(obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
Making a fine show or display.
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
noun
(dated) A Native American warrior.
(obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
(obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
verb
(transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
(transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
bravi
bravo
bravo
intj
Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
noun
(international standards, plural "bravos") Alternative letter-case form of Bravo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
(plural "bravi") A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
A shout of "bravo!"
verb
To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
breva
breve
breve
noun
(law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
(music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
(zoology) A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream
brevi
carve
carve
noun
(obsolete) A carucate.
The act of carving
verb
(archaic) To cut.
(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
To cut meat in order to serve it.
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
carvy
caver
caver
noun
(mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
A person who explores caves.
corve
corve
noun
Alternative form of corf
corvi
corvi
noun
plural of corvus
corvo
cover
cover
adj
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
noun
(combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(dated) A swindler's confederate.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
A cover charge.
A lid.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
The top sheet of a bed.
verb
(chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
(intransitive) To act as a replacement.
(intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
(military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
(music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
(sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
(transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
(transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To be enough money for.
To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
To deal with or include someone or something.
To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
To provide insurance coverage for.
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
crave
crave
noun
(law, Scotland) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.
verb
(transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
(transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
(transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.
cravo
curve
curve
adj
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
noun
(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
(informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
verb
(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
(transitive) To bend; to crook.
(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
curvy
curvy
adj
(euphemistic, of women) Overweight.
Buxom or curvaceous.
Having curves.
daver
deriv
derve
dever
dhruv
diver
diver
noun
(UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) pickpocket
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
dover
drava
drave
drave
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of drive
drive
drive
noun
(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
A driveway.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
A type of public roadway.
An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
verb
(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
(intransitive) To move forcefully.
(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
(transitive) To cause to become.
(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
(transitive) To compel (to do something).
(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
(transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
(transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
drove
drove
noun
(collective) A group of hares.
(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
simple past tense of drive
drovy
drovy
Adjective
turbid; muddy; filthy
dvmrp
eaver
elver
elver
noun
A young eel.
enver
erava
ervil
ervil
noun
bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
ervin
ervum
evars
evart
evers
evert
evert
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.
(transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
(transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
(transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
every
every
det
(with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
evora
evros
favor
favor
noun
(archaic) A letter, a written communication.
(law) Partiality; bias
(obsolete) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
(obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
A small gift; a party favor.
Goodwill; benevolent regard.
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
verb
(in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
To encourage, conduce to
To look upon fondly; to prefer.
To treat with care.
To use more often.
fever
fever
noun
(neologism) A group of stingrays.
(usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
A state of excitement or anxiety.
verb
To become fevered.
To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
fevre
fevre
noun
Obsolete form of fever.
fiver
fiver
noun
(Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
(colloquial) A clenched fist.
(religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
(slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
garvy
gavra
giver
giver
noun
One who gives; a donor or contributor.
grave
grave
adj
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
(phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
noun
(by extension) Death, destruction.
(by extension) Deceased people; the dead.
(historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
(intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
(intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
(transitive, obsolete) To dig.
(transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
gravy
gravy
noun
(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
(uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
(uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
(uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
verb
To make gravy.
grove
grove
noun
(Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
A small forest.
An orchard of fruit trees.
verb
(forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
To plough or gouge with lines.
grovy
grovy
adj
Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
harve
haver
haver
noun
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Oats (the cereal).
(law, Scotland) The person who has custody of a document.
One who has something (in various senses).
verb
(Britain) To hem and haw
(Scotland) To talk foolishly; to chatter.
havre
herve
hiver
hiver
noun
One who collects bees into a hive.
hover
hover
noun
(chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
(figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
verb
(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
(nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
(obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
To remain stationary or float in the air.
invar
invar
noun
An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion.
iover
irvin
ivers
ivory
ivory
adj
Made of ivory.
Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
noun
(collective, singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
(collective, singular or in plural) The teeth.
(informal) A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
(slang) A white person.
(uncountable) The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
Something made from or resembling ivory.
ivray
jarvy
jarvy
noun
Alternative form of jarvey
javer
jiver
jiver
noun
One who jives.
kaver
kerve
kerve
verb
Obsolete form of carve.
kever
kirov
kirve
kiver
kiver
noun
(archaic, dialect) cover
verb
(archaic, dialect) to cover
kovar
krivu
larva
larva
noun
(figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.
A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
An animal in the aforementioned stage.
An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
larve
larve
noun
Dated form of larva.
laver
laver
noun
A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
One who laves: a washer.
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
Porphyra vulgaris
That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
lever
lever
adv
(obsolete) Rather.
noun
(mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
(mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
(mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
(obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
(rare) A levee.
A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
verb
(chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
(figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
(figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
(transitive) To move with a lever.
levir
levir
noun
A husband's brother.
liver
liver
adj
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
comparative form of live: more live
noun
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
(obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
livor
livor
noun
(obsolete) Malice.
(pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
livre
livre
noun
(historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
(historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
lover
lover
noun
(West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
A person who loves something.
A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
Obsolete form of louver.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
marva
marve
marvy
marvy
adj
(colloquial) great, awesome, brilliant
mavra
mirvs
mirvs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mirv
mordv
mover
mover
noun
A dancer.
A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
A product that sells well.
Someone who or something that moves.
Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
murva
murva
noun
Synonym of marool
narev
narva
narva
Proper noun
City in Estonia.
navar
navar
noun
A kind of Zoroastrian priest.
nerva
nerve
nerve
noun
(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
(in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche;
(in the plural) mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
(nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
(obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
(polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
verb
(transitive) To give courage.
(transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
nervy
nervy
adj
(Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
(archaic) Strong; sinewy.
(technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
never
never
adv
(colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).
At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.
intj
A statement of defiance
nivre
norrv
nvram
orlov
orvah
orvan
orvas
orvet
orvet
noun
(obsolete) The slowworm.
orvie
orvil
ouvre
ouvre
noun
Misspelling of oeuvre.
ovary
ovary
noun
(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
(botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
overs
overs
noun
plural of over
overt
overt
adj
Open and not concealed or secret.
parve
parve
adj
Alternative spelling of pareve
paver
paver
noun
A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
One who paves; one who lays pavement.
preve
preve
verb
(obsolete) Alternative form of prove
privy
privy
adj
(now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
(now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
noun
(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
prove
prove
noun
(baking) The process of dough proofing.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To experience.
(copulative) To turn out to be.
(homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
(printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”)
simple past tense of proove
provo
provo
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Provo (“member of Dutch counterculture movement”)
rafvr
rajiv
rajiv
Proper noun
name. It is a common male name in India. The name means 'lotus flower' in Hindi. In Sanskrit, the word means 'Sri Krishna'.
raved
raved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rave
ravel
ravel
noun
(also figuratively) A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
(figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
verb
(also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
(also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
(archaic or obsolete) To become entangled or snarled.
(archaic) Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.
(obsolete) To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
(programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
raven
raven
adj
Of the color of the raven; jet-black
noun
(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
A jet-black colour.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Rapine; rapacity.
raven:
verb
(intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
(transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.