Definition of prey

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Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

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Depredate :: Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Implore :: Implore (v. i.) To entreat; to beg; to prey.
Sandpiper :: Sandpiper (n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Talon :: Talon (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey..
Raven :: Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Petromyzont :: Petromyzont (n.) A lamprey.
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..
Sawfish :: Sawfish (n.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey..
Soyle :: Soyle (n.) Prey.
Pride :: Pride (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper..
Stooper :: Stoop (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Osprey :: Osprey (n.) Alt. of Ospra.
Greedy :: Greedy (superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey..
Prowl :: Prowl (v. t.) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty..
Predaceous :: Predaceous (a.) Living by prey; predatory.
Ravissant :: Ravissant (a.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey..
Aerie :: Aerie (n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest..
Lampreys :: Lampreys (pl. ) of Lampre.
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird..
Orfray :: Orfray (n.) The osprey.
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