The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . ot as the ran-rirx of a J. .Sempill, Sacrilege Sacredly Handled, Int, (/toiiiM.) ravint (ravin), II. and r. See rai(;n2. ravine, «. Same as rrttCM-. ravine- (ra-ven), II. [< Jra. rariiir, ramjne, <OF. ravint; riihinr. a raging Hood, a torrent, aninundation, a hollow worn by a torrent, a ra-vine, F. ravine, ravin, a ravine; a particularuse of ravine, violence, impetuosity, plunder, <L. ivipiiifl, rapine, violence, plunder: see rapine,and cf
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . ot as the ran-rirx of a J. .Sempill, Sacrilege Sacredly Handled, Int, (/toiiiM.) ravint (ravin), II. and r. See rai(;n2. ravine, «. Same as rrttCM-. ravine- (ra-ven), II. [< Jra. rariiir, ramjne, <OF. ravint; riihinr. a raging Hood, a torrent, aninundation, a hollow worn by a torrent, a ra-vine, F. ravine, ravin, a ravine; a particularuse of ravine, violence, impetuosity, plunder, <L. ivipiiifl, rapine, violence, plunder: see rapine,and cf. raven-.] If. A raging flood. A raritu, or Inundation of waters, which overcometb allthings that come in lt« way. Cotgraoe. 2. A long deep hollow worn by a stream or tor-rent of water; hence, any deep narrow gorge,as in a moiuitain; a 2. aten. Gorge,etc. See valley. ravinedt (ravind), a. [Irreg. < ratijii, raiie«2,+ -<•((-.] Ravenous. Witches mummy, maw and gulfOf the raeiiid salt-sea shark. Shak., Macbeth, Iv. 1. 24. ravine-deer (ra-vender), ». The goat-antelopeof the Deccan, which inhabits rooky Ravine-deer {Tftrttrfros qHitdricorriis). It has many names, vernacular and technical, as btacktait,chikara, chominr/hn, kiiliri-iiie, Antilofjc chikara or (jiiadri-cttriii^, TefrawroH f^uadrifiirm\ and Traijops (raving), IK [< ME. ravynge; verbal Bavensara (rav-en-saril), n. [NL. (Sonnerat,ITKJ). < Malagasy ravin-dzara, said to meangoo(i leaf.] A genus of trees of the and tribe having the parts of the flower in thrthcrs, an enlarged perianth-tube closed over the ovary infruit, and a seed with six lobes descending into as manyfalse cells of the pericarp. The :? or 4 species arc smoothamnnitic trees of .Madagascar. It. aromatica has a clove-like fmgrance throughout, and its fruit, called dnn^.nut-meg or raveiutara-niit, is used in Madagascar as a (ravn/.-duk), «. A tine kind of hcni
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