Definition of prey

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Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

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Predal :: Predal (a.) Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory.
Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..
Raven :: Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Prey :: Prey (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder..
Lampreys :: Lampreys (pl. ) of Lampre.
Raven :: Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Bait :: Bait (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey..
Depredate :: Depredate (v. i.) To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country..
Sprig :: Spreynd () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
Venantes :: Venantes (n. pl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey..
Citigradae :: Citigradae (n. pl.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider..
Heart-eating :: Heart-eating (a.) Preying on the heart.
Whelp :: Whelp (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps..
Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..
Spider :: Spider (n.) Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on t
Fist :: Fist (n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
Eyas :: Eyas (n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself..
Disclosed :: Disclosed (p. a.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.
Pounce :: Pounce (v. t.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
Ravener :: Ravener (n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture..
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