foraging
    n 1: the act of searching for food and provisions [syn:
         foraging, forage]

Forage \For"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foraged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Foraging.]
   To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp.
   forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the
   country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
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         His most mighty father on a hill
         Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
         Forage in blood of French nobility.      --Shak.
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   Foraging ant (Zool.), one of several species of ants of the
      genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America,
      remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food.
      

   Foraging cap, a forage cap.

   Foraging party, a party sent out after forage.
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