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The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.

rs. Macaulay. -- To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. Shak. What went ye out for to see Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.

g on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.

ainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion. So many guests invite as here are writ. Shak. I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this. Carlyle.

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. "Marauding hosts." Milman.

ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party, a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett.

To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc. [Loosely & Colloquially] To make nice of, to be scrupulous about. [Obs.] Shak.

One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.

An excursion. [Obs.] Florio.

A riding out; an excursion. [R.]

An excursion. [Obs.] "Outrodes by the ways of Judea." Macc. xv. 41 (Geneva Bible).

y, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).

Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. "A predatory war." Macaulay.

A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. Swift.

A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. He may take a range all the world over. South.

The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.