Corsair

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  • noun. A pirate, especially along the Barbary Coast.
  • noun. A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any pirate-bug of the family Reduriidæ.
  • noun. One who cruises or scours the ocean with an armed vessel, without a commission from any sovereign or state, seizing and plundering merchant vessels, or making booty on land; a pirate; a freebooter.
  • noun. A piratical vessel; sometimes, a privateer.
  • noun. A scorpænoid fish, Sebastichthys rosaceus, with smooth cranial ridges, moderate-sized scales, and pale blotches surrounded by purplish shades on the sides.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
  • noun. A piratical vessel.
  • noun. A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
  • noun. A privateer or pirate in general
  • noun. The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
  • noun. A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
  • noun. a pirate along the Barbary Coast
  • Word Usage
    "That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of"
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