"Raven" is a word in ENGLISH
Rapine; rapacity.
A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the
crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia,
and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven
darkness.
To devour with great eagerness.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
To obtain or seize by violence.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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Did you say that you fell over fifty feet but didn't hurt yourself? Yes - I was trying to get to the back of the bus.
The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, …
Read the complete definitionGreediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
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Read the complete definitionSame as Accipitres.
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Read the complete definitionThe act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Read the complete definitionEagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Read the complete definitionA genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); …
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