Found 2 items, similar to Foray.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: foray foray n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: raid, maraud] 2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); “scientists' forays into politics” v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners” [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage] 2: briefly enter enemy territory
English → English (gcide) Definition: Foray Foray \For"ay\ (f[o^]r"[asl] or f[-o]*r[=a]"; 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. [1913 Webster] The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Foray \For"ay\, v. t. To pillage; to ravage. [1913 Webster] He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]