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noun

Rave n. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Rave n.

An instance of raving.

A highly flattering or enthusiastic review of a play, book, etc.

A clamorous dance party, especially one featuring a band or disc jockey playing loud modern rock music oriented toward young people, held in a large room such as a warehouse, often organized by an informal or ad hoc sponsor. (originally British slang)

verb

Rave v. t. To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

Rave v. i. (past & past part. raved; pres. part. raving)

To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. "In our madness evermore we rave." "Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?" "The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie."

To rush wildly or furiously.

To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. "The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not."

Rave v. obs. Imp. of Rive.

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"Rave" Quotes from Famous Books

... rave on," he said, when at length Meyer paused exhausted. "Just so in a time of storm the lightnings flash and the thunder peals, and the water foams down the face of rock; but then comes the sun again, and the hill is as it has ever been, only the storm ...

— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard

... as figuratively, and give no heed or thought to its return. The London Times will, we presume, impugn the motives of the charity—call it Pecksniffian and Heep-ish—or possibly try to prove that the Federals had no hand in the good deed. Let it rave—the business in hand is to feed starving men, women, and children, and not to make political capital, or gain glory, or please a party—for that we most assuredly shall not—but to do good and act in the large-hearted manner which gives a good conscience, and which as a national trait ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... how people act when confronted by the ruin of their hopes. Do they rave and curse and cry aloud? He could not think clearly—his mind seemed to avoid the real issue and refuse to strike on the sore place, and he thought of ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... one to stamp and rave over this," Julia said. "I ought to remind you that you knew my history when you married me; and you know life, too—you were ten years older than I, and how much more experienced! All I knew was learned at the settlement ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... dancing and howling dervishes, who express their religious exaltation through their eccentric mode of life, and thus it comes that the Hebrew word, which means "to live as a prophet," has also the signification "to rave, to behave ...

— Men in the Making • Ambrose Shepherd

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