Definition: foray

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

foray
     n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: raid, maraud]
     2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of
        competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
     v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
          looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
          [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
           ransack, pillage]
     2: briefly enter enemy territory

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Foray \For"ay\ (?; 277), n. [Another form of forahe. Cf.
   Forray.]
   A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any
   irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. --Spenser.

         The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling
         eyes of prey.                            --Tennyson.
Foray \For"ay\, v. t.
   To pillage; to ravage.

         He might foray our lands.                --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.