Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RA'VEN
RA'VEN, n.1 [ra'vn; Sax. hræfn, hrefn or ræfn; G. rabe; D. raaf; Qu. Heb. ערב, from its color. But this maybe L. corvus. The Saxon orthography would indicate that this fowl is named from pilfering; hreafian, reafian, to plunder, to rob, L. rapio.]
A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus. – Encyc.
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