Verb (used without object) : to raven like an animal. From Dictionary.com.
It's a poor case to be landin 'ravin' mad in a sthrange counthry, supposin 'you get there itself. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
Nawt named fur ravin mainiackz but fur “The Raven,” uv corss. From Wordnik.com. [Yeah, we hooked up! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
But with all her rantin and ravin, I never, never could see her as a harpy. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Punk’d] Reference
What right'd you to put a ravin 'lunatic in with me, an' me sick an 'helpless?. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXI] Reference
The wild wind is ravin ', and you dinna care. cho. From Wordnik.com. [Can Ye Sew Cushions?] Reference
If she was on'y watchin 'she'd be a ravin' lunatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
I can hardly keep from roarin 'an' ravin 'about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad] Reference
"Dan's ravin 'mad," a man on the port boilers said. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The wild wind is ravin ', thy minnie's heart's sair. From Wordnik.com. [Can Ye Sew Cushions?] Reference
So it's blood you want, is it, you ravin 'desperado!. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
Now, is that ravin 'lunacy or a business proposition?. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
How the swift wheels and scythes of ravin have dragged. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
Far and wide the waste and ravin of their rule proclaim. From Wordnik.com. [A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems] Reference
How much Bass wid the label did that ravin 'child dhrink?'. From Wordnik.com. [Soldier Stories] Reference
He came in ravin ', and he talked to me something terrible. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Land] Reference
"Thet man Wetzel is ravin 'mad, I tell you," growled Legget. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Trail] Reference
"Oh, I don't mean she's any ravin 'beauty," says I, hedgin '. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy As A Pa] Reference
Well, that was before you tuck to the fightin '; but I'm ravin'. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
An 'dey' d t'ink dat you was crazy -- jes 'a reg'lar ravin' loon. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] Reference
"There's a man in the men's ward who in his ravin 'speaks of you.". From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
"It 'ud be the joke of a set of ravin' mad people," said the widow. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
Bermuda t'other day, when he was ravin 'tight and layin' for Butcher. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of California Life] Reference
Some say I'm an old fool in his dotage, ravin 'aboot a favorite son. From Wordnik.com. [To the Last Man] Reference
My goodness, gracious me alibe, is all de worl 'gone ravin', starin '. From Wordnik.com. [Ishmael In the Depths] Reference
"Didn't say nothin 'about havin' a ravin 'may-ni-ac aboard, did theh?". From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
Wid him ravin 'and cursin' one half of the night, as cold by his side I sat. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
"Why, Barny," the young man would exclaim, "is the ravin 'fit comin' over you?". From Wordnik.com. [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
"I dunno what you're ravin 'about," growled the unhappy owner of the automobile. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing Gold] Reference
I'd enough sight ruther be girl-struck than always ravin 'and rippin' against females. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference
We thought he'd like to know that Paddy has been carried to the sick-house in ravin 'delirium. From Wordnik.com. [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference
This sea of silver, "hushed and halcyon," or this sea of wrath and ravin, wild as Judgment Day. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
When you been rantin 'and ravin' 'bout the guy every cheerleader in blue and orange out weighs?. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
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