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Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.

Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking. "Piratical printers." Pope. -- Pi*rat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.

A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. B. Edwards.

olding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- Pre*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*cau"*tious*ness, n.

ove others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent. Milton.

The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.

Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

ne, a hot-air engine, etc. (c) Fig.: The original or the most effective force in any undertaking or work; as, Clarkson was the prime mover in English antislavery agitation. -- Prime number (Arith.), a number which is exactly divisible by no number except itself or unity, as 5, 7, 11. -- Prime vertical (Astron.), the…

A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone.

The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon.

Pertaining to, or serving for, proof. Jer. Taylor. Probatory term (Law), a time for taking testimony.

ached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.