rave

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
• intransitive verb To move with great violence or intensity.
• intransitive verb To speak or write with wild enthusiasm.
• intransitive verb To attend a rave.
• intransitive verb To utter or express in a frenzied or unrestrained manner.
• noun The act or an instance of raving.
• noun Informal An extravagantly enthusiastic opinion or review.
• noun An all-night dance party, especially one at which techno, house, or other electronically synthesized music is played.
• noun Chiefly British A raucous party; a rave-up.
• adjective Relating to or being an extravagantly enthusiastic opinion or review.

from The Century Dictionary.

• An obsolete preterit of rive.
• To rive.
• To talk like a madman; speak with delirious or passionate extravagance; declaim madly or irrationally; rage in speech.
• To talk about something with exaggerated earnestness, and usually with little judgment or coherence; declaim enthusiastically, immoderately, or ignorantly.
• To produce a brawling or turbulent sound; move or act boisterously: used of the action of the elements.
• To utter in frenzy; say in a wild and excited manner.
• Same as reave, 3.
• To tear up; pull or tear the thatch or covering from (a house): same as reave, 4.
• noun A tearing; a hole or opening made by tearing out or away: as, a rave in an old building.
• noun One of the side pieces of the body of a wagon or other vehicle.
• noun A turnip.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• imp. of rive.
• noun One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
• transitive verb To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly.
• noun An instance of raving.
• noun A highly flattering or enthusiastic review of a play, book, etc.
• noun originally British slang 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.
• intransitive verb To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
• intransitive verb To rush wildly or furiously.
• intransitive verb To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
• noun An all night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
• verb To speak or write wildly or incoherently'
• verb To attend a rave (dance party).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played
• verb talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
• verb praise enthusiastically
• noun an extravagantly enthusiastic review
• verb participate in an all-night techno dance party