Word Meanings - PICAROON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

Related words: (words related to PICAROON)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• TEMPLED
  Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• TEMPLET
  A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. (more info) 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be
• TEMPLE
  A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
• PIRATE
  1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor. 2. An
• MARAUDER
  A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.
• CORSAIR
  Pr. corsari), LL. corsarius, fr. L. cursus a running, course, whence Sp. corso cruise, corsa cruise, coasting voyage, corsear to cruise against the enemy, to pirate, corsario cruising, a privateer 1. A pirate; one who cruises about without
• STEMPLE
  A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
• ASPIRATE
  To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant. (more info) or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf.
• ANTETEMPLE
  The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
• ASPIRATE; ASPIRATED
  Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.