From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foray \For"ay\ (f[o^]r"[asl] or f[-o]*r[=a]"; 277), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foray \For"ay\, verb (used with an object) To pillage; to ravage.
He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a sudden short attack [syn: {raid}, {maraud}]
2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
verb
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "foray": air attack, air raid, air strike, banditry, board, boarding, brigandage, brigandism, depredate, depredation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, escalade, fire raid, fleece, forage, foraging, freeboot, freebooting, gut, harass, harry, incursion, inroad, inundate, invade, invasion, irruption, loot, looting, make a raid, make an inroad, maraud, marauding, overrun, overswarm, overwhelm, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, prey on, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, sack, sacking, saturation raid, scale, scale the walls, scaling, shuttle raid, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm, sweep, take by storm
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