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by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak.

One who pillages. Pope.

to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

ed by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.…

Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.…

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To pillage; to ravage. He might foray our lands. Sir W. Scott.

To foray; to ravage; to pillage. For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

To pillage; to harry; to oppress. [Obs.] Spenser. Meaning thereby to harrow his people. Bacon

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.

A pillager.

ices rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service. The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. Prescott. The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. Addison.

To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. Sir T. Malroy.

Plunder; pillage. [Obs.] Daniel.