Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Raid

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Raid


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(1):

(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

(2):

(v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

(3):

(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.