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.

His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. --Shak.

Foraging ant (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)