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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

... medicine, suddenly noticed how loud its ticking sounded. Wondering at this, he was aware there was no other sound in the house. He rose and looked in at the door of the adjoining room. The patient had ceased to rave and was ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... that when I'm going to commit suicide for his sake, and, and I don't want to be French and rave about my mother, but have I ever told you that I have a mother, and a brother who was my pet before I married? He's married now. Can't you imagine the pleasure that the news of the elopement will give him? Have you any people at Home, Guy, to ...

— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling

... days and nights did Clotelle watch at the bedside of her father before he could speak to her intelligently. Sometimes, in his insane fits, he would rave in the most frightful manner, and then, in a few moments, would be as easily governed as a child. At last, however, after a long and apparently refreshing sleep, he awoke suddenly to a full consciousness that it was indeed ...

— Clotelle - The Colored Heroine • William Wells Brown

... the deep blue sky; Breathless doth the blue sea lie; And scarcely can my heart believe, 'Neath such a sky, on such a wave, That Heaven can frown and billows rave, ...

— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling

... function of a critic. After all, an unerring eye for masterpieces is perhaps of more use to a dealer than to him. Mistakes do not matter much: if we are to call mistakes what are very likely no more than the records of a perverse or obscure mood. Was it a mistake in 1890 to rave about Wagner? Is it a mistake to find him intolerable now? Frankly, I suspect the man or woman of the nineties who was unmoved by Wagner of having wanted sensibility, and him or her who to-day revels in that music of being aesthetically oversexed. Be that as it may, never ...

— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell

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