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A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." Shak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.

ter, air-breathing mollusk of the genus Ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell. -- River pirate (Zoöl.), the pike. -- River snail (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera. See Pond snail, under Pond. -- River tortoise (Zoöl.), any one of numerous fresh-water tortoises in…

A black flag with white skull and crossbones, formerly used by pirates; -- called also Jolly Roger.

One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.

sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.

dering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates. Milton.

n who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.

A pirate. [R.] Massinger.

A pirate; a sea rover.

One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

A pirate. Drayton.

reath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.

as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. [Obs.] Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it. B. Jonson.

hout tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§169, 179, 180.

called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

A triumvirate. [Obs.] Shak.

One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.