King James Bible Dictionary

CRAVE, verb transitive

1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to beseech; to implore; to ask with submission or humility, as a dependent; to beg; to entreat.

As for my nobler friends, I crave their pardons.

Joseph--went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark 15:43.

2. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.

3. Sometimes intransitively, with for before the thing sought; as, I crave for mercy.

CRAVED, participle passive Asked for with earnestness; implored; entreated; longed for; required.

CRAVEN, CRAVENT CRAVANT, noun

1. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.

2. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

CRAVEN, verb transitive To make recreant, weak or cowardly.

CRAVER, noun One who craves or begs.