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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Craven \Cra"ven\, noun [Formerly written also cravant and cravent.] A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See {Recreant}, noun
King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath? Fluellen. He is a craven and a villain else. --Shak.
Syn: Coward; poltroon; dastard.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Craven \Cra"ven\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cravened} (-v'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cravening}.] To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.]
There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Craven \Cra"ven\ (kr?"v'n), adjective [OE. cravant, cravaunde, OF. cravant? struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush, strike down, fr. an assumed LL. crepantare, fr. L. crepans, p. pr. of crepare to break, crack, rattle. Cf. {Crevice}, {Crepitate}.] Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. ''His craven heart.'' --Shak.
The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. --Sir. W. Scott.
In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
craven
adjective: lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser [syn: {recreant}]
noun: an abject coward [syn: {poltroon}, {recreant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "craven": base, caitiff, chicken, coward, dastard, dastardly, dunghill, dunghilly, funk, funker, gutless, lily-livered, poltroon, poltroonish, pusillanimous, quitter, recreant, spunkless, unmanly
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Craven -- U.S. County in North Carolina Population (2000): 91436 Housing Units (2000): 38150 Land area (2000): 708.426888 sq. miles (1834.817138 sq. km) Water area (2000): 65.715334 sq. miles (170.201927 sq. km) Total area (2000): 774.142222 sq. miles (2005.019065 sq. km) Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37 Location: 35.095872 N, 77.061834 W Headwords: Craven Craven, NC Craven County Craven County, NC
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