foray : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: foray	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for foray
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foray n a sudden short attack Synonym(s): foray, raid, maraud an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics" v steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonym(s): plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray briefly enter enemy territory
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foray \For"ay\, v. t. To pillage; to ravage. He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foray \For"ay\ (?; 277), n. [Another form of forahe. Cf. {Forray}.] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. --Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. --Tennyson.