Both pined amidst their royal state, a prey to incurable despondency

Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 16. 4. The act of preying or seizing upon anything. (a) Plundering; pillage; robbery; depredation. To forage the countrey adioyning, and to liue vpon the spoyle of them that would not receiue their new doctrine, which they in many troupes, and with many preyes , accordingly performed. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 389. When his Soldiers had gotten great Spoils, and made Prey upon the innocent Countrey People, he commanded them to restore it all back again. Baker , Chronicles, p. 11. The whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey . Tennyson , Maud, iv. (b) The act of seizing in order to devour; seizure, as by a carnivorous animal of its victim. Yet dared not his victor to withstand, But trembled like a lam be fled from the pray . Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 36. Methought a serpent eat my heart away, And you sat smiling at his cruel prey . Shak., M. N. D., ii. 2. 150. Animal or beast of prey, a carnivorous, predatory, or rapacious animal; one that feeds on the flesh of other animals. Bird of prey. See bird1 and Raptores . Vulture, kite, Raven, and gorcrow, all my birds of prey . B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. =Syn. 1. Booty , etc. (see pillage ).-4. Ravin. prey2 (prā), v . [Early mod. E. also pray , preie ; preyen , prayen , preier , preer , proier = It. predare , prædari , take booty, plunder, pillage, catch or take animals as game or prey, præda , prey: see prey2, n. Cf. prede , an obs. doublet of prey .] I. in trans. 1. To take booty; commit robbery or pillage; seize spoils: generally with on or upon . They pray continually to their saint, the commonwealth or rather, not pray to her, but prey on her. Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1, 90. 4718 prialt (pri'al), n. (which see, under pair1 ). Good morrow, masters; put your torches out; The wolves have prey'd ; and look, the gentle day Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. ... IMG:content-0931.png:[blocks in formation] Some [critics] on the leaves of ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they. II.t trans . To ravage; pillage; make prey of. Amongst the rest the which they then did pray, They spoyld old Melibee of all he had. out his oriental anabasis, was the year 333 before Christ. Here we have another prial , a prial of threes, for the locus of Alexander. De Quincey , Style, iii. prian (prī'an), n . Same as pry an . Priapean (pri-a-pē'an), a . and n. [L. Pria- peius , Priapēus , pertaining to Priapus (neut. pl. Priapeia , a collection of poems on Priapus), Πριάπειος , Πρίαπος , Priapus: see Priapus .] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to Priapus.-2. In anc . pros ., noting a certain verse or meter. See the noun.-3. [l. c.] Having a priapism. II. n. In anc. pros ., a log aædic meter con- sisting of a catalectic Glyconic and a Phere- crate an. It a umes the following forms: トリー price ment