Word Meanings - FILIBUSTERISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

BARTLETT
A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
FILIBUSTER
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition
FILIBUSTERISM
The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.