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Show RAY RAY Tneguality not frayed upon, but paffing, is rathe an encreafe of fwectnefs; as in the purling of wreathed fring, and in the raxcity of a trumpet Bacon's Natural Hiflory @ Rave n French. 1. To be delirious Dutch [reven réver to talk irrationally Her grief has wrought her into frenzy; The images her troubled fancy form Are incoherent, wild; her words disjointed Somerimes fhe rawves for mufick, light, and air Nor air, nor light, nor mufick calm her pains burft out into furious exclamation as if mad Shall thefe wild diftempers of thy mind This tempeft of thy tongue, thus rawe, and fin Sandys's Paraphbrafe on Fob No oppofition Our rawings and complaints are but like arrow fhot up into the air, at no mark, and fo to n TL‘/?,‘]J[L' Wonder at my patience Have I not caufe to rawe, and beat my breaft "To rend my heart with grief, and run diftracted Addifon Revenge revenge thu {treets Pl cry for vengeance rawin throug th Southern's Spartan Dame He fwore he could not leave me With ten thoufand rawings. Rowwe's Royal Convert 3. To be unreafonably fond: with #po A colbefore the objet of fondnefs Joquial and improper fenfe F Another partiality is as fantaftical and wild, attributing all knowledge to the ancients or the moderns: this rawing upon antiquity, in matter o poetry, Horace has witiily expofed in one of hi Locke {atires Ra'VEL w. a [ravelen Dutch t entangle. 1. To entangle; to entwift one with another; to make intricate ; to involve to perplex 1f then fuch praife the Macedonian got For having rudely cut the Gordian knot What glory's due to him that cou'd divid Such rawel'd int'refts, has the knot unty'd Where craft and matice fuch obftrultions laid Waller 'To unweave ; to unknit: as, #o rave out a tawift or piece of knit work Let him for a pair of reechy kifle Or padling in your neck with his damn'd fingets Malie you to rawvel all this matter out Shakefp Sleep, that knits up the rewvel'd fleete of care Shake[peare "Thi 3. To hurry over in confufion {eems to be the meaning in Digby They but rawel it over loofely, and- pitch upo difputing againft particular conclufions, that at th firft encounter of them fingle, feem harfh to them Digly 9o Ra'veL . n 1. To fall into pérplexity or confufion As yo unwind her love from him Left it fhould rave/, and be good to none You muft provide to bottom it on me. Shakelpeare Give the reins to wandering thought Regardlefs of his glory's diminution Till by their own perplexities involv'd They rawel more, fill lefs yefolv'd Put never find felf-fatisfying folution 2. T wor Milton in perplexity ; to bufy him fe1f with intricacies Raflgc for prey ; furious voracity f r t i th t w n l n m s e t m l or intan and paffions of princes and of parties, and thereb Temple In fortifiRAVELIN. n. /. [French. s c f t o t i n c a t r w o t e tha moo called hal b Ravcnr reach commonl angle a falien mak them; yet their miffion upon an cxtra:rd?wt? occafion may be an actus imperatus of giy i vidence neI;m produced infinite dif inflamed an foldiers th u c o n t u c t r f b e i r i Dia terfcarps RA'VEN. . /. [pnepn, Saxon.] Alarg black fowl, whofe cry is fuppofed omi The ruby lips, and well-proportion'd nofe The fnowy fkin, the raves glofly hair qmt 7o Ra''VEN. @. a. [papian, Saxon, t To devour with great eagernef rob. Shake[peare Thine own life's means Our natures do purfue Like rats that rawen down their proper bane A thirfty evil; and when we drink we die. Shakefp The cloyed wil That fatiate, yet unfatisfied defire, thattu Both fill'd and running, rawvening firft the lamb after for the garbage Long Shake[p. Cymbeline 7o Ra'VEN city T He trained was till riper years he raugh And there abode whilft any beaft of n,am Walk'd in that foreft Spen This ftaff of honour raught, there let it ltand". Where beft it fits to be, in Henry's hand. Ska The hand of death has raugkt him. Sbakefpearz Grittus furioufly running in upon Scbenden vialently raught from his head his rich cap o fables, and with his horfemen took him, Knglls better written raven. an Plal roaring Jion xxil holes with prey, and his den To me, who with eterna Alike is hell, or paradife, o There beft, where moft wit Convulfion rac man' nerve an cares hi Ra'vENouUs. adj. [from raven. Furiouil voracious; hungry to rage unable to efcape Ra'viNGLY frenzy Tha What ! the kind Ifmena nurs'd me, watch'd my ficknefs watch'd me As rav'nous yultureswatch the dying lion o fh Smith Wi [from rave with diftraction «. a 7o RA'VISH 1. To conftuprat by viclence [ravir, French. by force; to deflowe Lar They ravifbed the women and maids bet ' if ra an gu to ' te fi th cu e T Shakefpear 2. To take away by violence Thef haizs, whic thou doft ravifb from m chin Lea Ki p ke Sh e th uf ac Will quicken an Their vow is mad ur im on ft f wh i t w o T To ranfac Shakelpeare The rawvifp'd Helen flecps His fire appear'd rd he le la fy r ev t iz pr hi And al ie li am mo fi i ke ro th Bu Then firk he ravifp't to hi e ca th el my 1 ow ai re t u n h My fame and injur' e pi de thy i ma u pr t te From thy ow di Dr ht ri de te pr th if ra l fh n h Thi { n a t t e u p r t 3. To deligh Cfl}' > : :I?:Thou haft rawvifbed my heart e lo he wi ay al e Be thou rawif Ra'visugr = £7e2 [ravife#rs Frenc S b. from rawvi <embraces a woman by vfl:fii';}f 1. He tha common S‘pf 2 d o b a u c a The children o of women A ravifberomuf o h to the maidi , and gi it if the defir u y o i o g t i p o t Turn henc ( l : l r c For if more charms b " , y D , f So weak my virt ei h ber to Milton's Par. Loft fcentof Hving carcafles adv In this depth of mufes and divers forts of difcourfes, would fhe ravingly have remained, Sidwj Thy defire Are wolfith, bloody, ftarv'd, and rawemus. Shak As when a floc Of ravenos fowl, though many alcague remote Againft the day of battle, to a fiel Where armies lie eacamp'd come flying, lur' Wit They might not lie in a condition expofed t the rawin of any vermia that may find them, btin breaft His flying lifeis chas'd by raw'aing pain Through all his doubles in the winding veins Blackinore with ravin, Nabum, | Higot famine pine heav'n rawin I may meet Milton 2. Rapine ; rapacioufnefs 13 The more they fed, they rawen'd ftill for more They drain'd from Dan, and left Beerfheba poor 3ut when fome lay preferment fell by chance The Gourmands made it their inheritance. Drydea this wer raven = 5 1. Prey; food gotten by violence The lion ftrangled for his lioneffes, and flled by 1§ Jabdee Benjamin fhall raven as a wolf; in the mornin he fhall devour the prey, and at night he .fhal Genefis divide the fpoil They gaped upon me with their mouths, as ravenin [fro #. / Ra'vin with rapa pre Sperfer In like delights of bloody game and rapacity Thriftlefs ambition ! that will 7awen u The ever-burning lamps from thence itbmughtg To footy blacknefs from the purett white. Addifor Hence Gildon rails, that rawen of the pit Young Who thrives upon the carcafles of wit Snatched ; reached; am\ine.d And with extorted power and borrow'd firen t The dimpled cheek. Dryden's Cymon and Iphigenia The rawen once in fnowy plames was dreft White as the whiteft dove's unfully'd breaft His tongue, his prating tongue had chang'd hi the old pret. and part, pafi‘al? His tail was ftretched out in wond'rous Jey 1 That to Ehe houfe of heavenly pods it rayphy i The rawen himfelf is hoarf That crokes the fatal entrance of Dunca Shake[peare's Macbeth Under my batdements Come thou day in night For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Shakefp Whiter than fnow upon a rawen's back I have feen a perfeétly white rawen, as to bill a Boyle on Colours well as feathers He made the greedy rawens to be Elias' caterers King Charles and bring him food On fev'ral parts a fev'ral praife beftows The r.'wenaufr.ufs of 2 lion or bear are .n There is a confpiracy of the prophets, like roaring lion rawening the prey. E=zekiel, xxii. 25 Anad without ftroke fo fmootli 2 paffage made 2 myftica Ra‘vENousLy. adv, [from ravenay With raging voracity Ra'venouswess. c z 7//. [f TOM ravenyy nous Smith .purpofe The humour of raweiling into all thef putes Government of the Tongue It foon infeGteth the whole member, and i accompanied with watching and rawvirg. Wifiman T memeory will fuggef Decay of Picty of elder times; every man' many pertinent inftances heightene Men who thus rawe, we may conclude thei brains ave turned, and one may as well read lectures at Bedlam as treat with fuch 2 r c r th t i f w r t f l c n b It wil 1 fhall turn raru 2 One wh Sha e d I ‘While th ,N\"« P aius \ U ll & |