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adv. In a defiant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching. [ 1913 Webster ]

A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange.

-- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a depraving manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of engraving by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Grave to clean. ] The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Grave to dig. ] 1. The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, especially by incision or in intaglio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is graved or carved. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving. 2 Chron. ii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Impression, as upon the mind or heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. landgräfin; cf. D. landgravin. ] The wife of a landgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. markgräfin: cf. F. margrafine. ] The wife of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin. ] The consort or widow of a palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Photo- + engraving. ] The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ravenous. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Raven. ] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. “Fowls of ravyne.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See Ravish, and cf. Rapine, Raven prey. ] 1. A torrent of water. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. [ 1913 Webster ]