Like rats that ravin down their proper bane.
Shak.
Rav"en, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
[Written also ravin, and ravine.]
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf.
Gen. xlix. 27.
||Rav`e*na"la (rv`*nä"l), n. [Malagasy.] (Bot.) A genus of plants
||related to the banana.
Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree
with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the
stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and retain rain
water, which flows freely when they are pierced with a knife, whence
the plant is called traveler's tree.
Rav"en*er (rv"'n*r), n. 1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
Gower.