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Prowl   /praʊl/   Listen
noun
Prowl  n.  The act of prowling. (Colloq.)


verb
Prowl  v. t.  (past & past part. prowled; pres. part. prowling)  
1.
To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty. "He prowls each place, still in new colors decked."
2.
To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money. (Obs.)


Prowl  v. i.  To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.





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"Prowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... very kind one, I think," answered Rose, following, to prowl round the big boxes and try to ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... prowl through the strange streets and alleys and stranger shops; it was a joy to ramble about, minus the irritating importunities of guide or attendant. It was great fun, but it was not always wise. There were some situations which only ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... panting mouth was open, and her nostrils were not sufficient for her breath. There are certain animals who fall upon their enemy in their rage, do it to death, and seem in the tranquillity of victory to have forgotten it. There are others who prowl around their victim, who guard it in fear lest it should be taken away from them, and who, like the Achilles of Homer, drag their enemy by the feet nine times round the walls of Troy. The Marquise was like that. She ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... when they want, and hyenas laugh to attract their prey," continued the old woman. "The evil spirits which prowl at night in the stones and ruins know many a trick and play ...
— The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 - The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt • Theophile Gautier
... of this night in the warehouse above you! I will wager a hundred pounds against your own courage that you will not back your laughter by going through what this fellow has gone through. That you will not prowl through the corridors of this great structure until you have found room 4167—and remain ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various


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