Noun

(en noun)

One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.

(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.

(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

Noun

(archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

* Bible, Numbers xxxi. 12

And they brought the captives, and the prey , and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.

That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

* Dryden

Already sees herself the monster's prey .

* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

[The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk

A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

* Bible, Job iv. ii

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey .

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The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

* Shakespeare

Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey .

The victim of a disease.