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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “VENTURER”

VENTURER n. 2 definitions
One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl.
ADVENTURER n. 2 definitions
One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
COADVENTURER n.
A fellow adventurer.
ACCUSTOM v.
ms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.
ADDICT v.
to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.
ADVENTURESS n.
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
BLACK FLAGS n.
y 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.
BOHEMIAN n.
sy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]
BUCCANEER n. 2 definitions
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.]
CARPETBAGGER n.
An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]
CONDOTTIERE n.
A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.
DIVERSIFICATION n.
modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.
FILIBUSTER n.
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 185…
LUCKY a.
; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer. " Lucky wight." Spenser.
PICARESQUE a.
h the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
SCOPE n.
Extended area. [Obs.] "The scopes of land granted to the first adventurers." Sir J. Davies.