Ravin vs Mavin - What's the difference?
ravin | mavin |
(obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven
* 1850 , :
(obsolete) ravenous
* 1598 , , III. ii. 117:
As nouns the difference between ravin and mavin
is that ravin is (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven while mavin is .As an adjective ravin
is (obsolete) ravenous.ravin
English
Alternative forms
* ravineNoun
(-)- Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine , shriek'd against his creed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Better 'twere / I met the ravin lion when he roared / With sharp constraint of hunger;