Given to plundering, or taking things by force; extremely rapacious. Cf. raven, v. 1. Now rare.

Given to rapine; rapacious.

That ravens (in various senses of the verb); rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty; ravenously hungry. In quot. 1390 as n.: a person who ravens; the…

Inordinately given to grasping or taking; aggressively greedy; greedily desirous of. Also with infinitive. Of a person or a people.

Contentious, rapacious. Obsolete.

Of a robber, thief, etc.: grasping, rapacious. Obsolete.

laying hold with tenterhooks (in quot. 1615 figurative).

Acting like a vulture.

= vulturine, adj.

Of or belonging to the vulture tribe; resembling a vulture. In general use. Also figurative.

Somewhat vulture-like.

figurative. Resembling a vulture in appearance or character.