Word Meanings - PICKEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp.

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• SKIRMISH
  To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers. (more info) eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm,
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• PICAROON
  One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.
• BOOTY
  That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
• SKIRMISHER
  One who skirmishes. Specifically: pl.
• MARAUD
  To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. "Marauding hosts." Milman. (more info) origin, perh. for malault, fr. LL. malaldus; fr. L. malus
• CATTLE
  Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track
• ULTIMATELY
  As a final consequence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.
• ADVANCER
  1. One who advances; a promoter. 2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.
• ADVANCEMENT
  Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• MARAUDER
  A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.
• ANT-CATTLE
  Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
• EPICORACOID
  A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
• PALPICORN
  One of a group of aquatic beetles having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.
• DISADVANCE
  To draw back, or cause to draw back. Spenser.
• FREEBOOTY
  Freebootery.
• READVANCE
  To advance again.