| 单词 | in, of foray |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin, of foray 1. A hostile or predatory incursion or inroad, a raid. †in, of foray: on a foray.Revived in the 19th cent. by Sir Walter Scott. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > raid > [noun] roadeOE skeck1297 chevacheec1380 forayc1400 reisea1450 raid1455 bodrag1537 skeg1542 reid1544 inroad1548 outroad1560 excursion1577 excurse1587 bodraging1590 cavalcade1591 chevachance1592 chivancy1616 algaradea1649 course1651 outrakea1765 commando1791 razzia1821 muru1836 chappow1860 night raid1872 c1400–20 Judicium (Roxb.) 7 Some at ayll howse I fande: and som of ferray. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 591 Thir four hundreth..A forray kest and sessit mekill gud. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 284 Sum sall went to ye forray. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 16 The forrow was..mainteyned every waye, without resistance. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xiii. 82 Had not our Horse been over~wearied with their long forrey. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. ii. 17 The foray was long and the skirmish hot. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxiii. 471 The continual forays of Mariano had spread ruin and desolation on our south-east. < as lemmas |
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