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Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]

urney, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A cohabitant. Hobbes.

on or implication; to comprise; to imply. Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. Hobbes. And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. Rom. xiii. 9.

One who conjectures. Hobbes.

eing joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove. F. P. Cobbe.

f England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes.

g in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribut…

ther; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26.

urposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

able for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.

The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.

esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.] Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.