Bible Dictionaries
Raid

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Raid'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/raid.html. 1828.