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Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.] Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

The rise of a hawk after prey. Sir P. Sidney.

Something strange or newly happened. It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich. L'Estrange.

The lamprey.

The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.

The osprey. [R.]

To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

A lamprey.

The claw or talon of a bird of prey. Spenser. Burke.

ith adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving. And to his goddess pitously he preyde. Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matt. vi. 6. I pray, or (by ellipsi…

ty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere." Chaucer

Living by prey; predatory. Derham.

Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory. [R.] Boyse.

Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.

To prey; to plunder. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

red; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. I will depart my pris, or may prey, by deliberation. Chaucer. His own prize, Whom formerly he had in battle won. Spenser.

, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.