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Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent] The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. Thackeray. Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. Dickens.

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.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

To madden; to rave. [Obs.] An infatuating and delirating spirit in it. Holland.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. Alford.…

o infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission. Pirate perch (Zoöl.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

The body or office of the quindecemviri.

The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.

Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.

The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri. [R.]

A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

The ensign of a pirate.

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.]

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.