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Forray, Forra, n. Also: forraye, forrey, forrie; pl. forresse. [ME. (rare) forray (a 1400), prob. f. Forrayv. See also Forrow n.] A foray. 1375 Barb. ii. 281.
Sum sall [wend] to the forray Ib. xv. 468. c1420 Wynt. viii. 6276.
Fywe hundyr slayne ware … But thai, that deyd in the forray Ib. 6326.
That rad noucht gretly skathfull was … , For thai na gret forrais made ?1438 Alex. i. 32.
He bad him seuin hundreth kuychtis ta, Aud with thame in to forray ga c1475 Wall. ix. 463.
Thir four hundreth … A forray kest and sessit mekill gud 1535 Stewart 329.
Als fast as tha come to land, Tha maid forra about on euerilk hand Ib. 8531.
The Romanis … Tua greit forrais maid in Pechtlandia 1549 Compl. 14/30.
The iunyng of ane battel, with cruel escharmouchis in the ryding of forrais 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 551.
Quhen evir that ony effray of thevis or revaris happynnis … , we sall at the effray and forray … ryise [etc.]

b. In the phr. to rin (or ride) a forray. 1533 Boece x. xvi. 393.
The king … chargeit his folkis ryn the forray and collect the pray 1558-66 Knox I. 79.
Forresse war runne upon the day … but many snapparis thei gate 1570 Leslie 102.
The Inglis men ran ane forray one the watter of Roule 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 273.
The French army, being in Linlithqw, raid ane forray about the same 1596 Dalr. II. 156/19.
The Inglis … ran the forra into Scotland the verie selfe day quhen the trues wes tane