| RAV | <abbreviation> Rous-associated virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ravage | Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. "Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul?" (Addison) Synonym: Despoilment, devastation, desolation, pillage, plunder, spoil, waste, ruin. Origin: F, fr. (assumed) L. Rapagium, rapaticum, fr. Rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| raven | <zoology> A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. <zoology> Sea raven, the cormorant. Origin: AS. Hraefn; akin to raaf, G. Rabe, OHG. Hraban, Icel. Hrafn, Dan. Ravn, and perhaps to L. Corvus, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ravenala | <botany> 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 traveller's tree. Origin: Malagasy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ravish | 1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. "These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee." (Shak) "This hand shall ravish thy pretended right." (Dryden) 2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. "Ravished . . . For the joy." "Thou hast ravished my heart." (Cant. Iv. 9) 3. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape. Synonym: To transport, entrance, enrapture, delight, violate, deflour, force. Origin: OE. Ravissen, F. Ravir, fr. L. Rapere to snatch or tear away, to ravish. See Rapacious, Rapid, and -ish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ravishment | 1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. "In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze." (Milton) 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape. Origin: F. Ravissement. See Ravish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Ravius | See: Rau. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ravius' process | A slender spur running anteriorward from the neck of the malleus toward the petrotympanic fissure. Synonym: processus anterior mallei, Folli's process, follian process, long process of malleus, processus gracilis, processus ravii, Rau's process, Ravius' process, slender process of malleus. (05 Mar 2000) |