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Algerine

Algerine \Al`ge*rine"\, n. A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

Algerine

Algerine \Al`ge*rine"\, a. Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

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algerine

n. A type of loosely woven cloth in stripes of bright colors, used for scarf, shawls and similar.

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Algerine (disambiguation)

Algerine can refer to:

  • Algerian (disambiguation)
  • , various ships of the Royal Navy

  • Three ship classes:

Algerino refers to:

  • A nickname given to inhabitants of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by residents of Whitby
Algerine (horse)

Algerine (1873 — c. 1892) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1876 Belmont Stakes and was the maternal grandsire of Rhoda B, the dam of the 1907 Epsom Derby winner Orby.

Usage examples of "algerine".

And some of course are just out for the main chance, privateering on their own account or with Algerine renegadoes.

I am so sorry you had to see that youth: most of the Algerine clerks are absent, taking their families out of the city, and I had to put him at the desk.

Having uttered all the necessary words of congratulation, I should like to retire to an obscure lodging-house near the Gate of Woe, a house in which some of my less presentable Algerine and Berber friends would excite no comment, whereas they might well compromise an official residence.

I must give you some remarks on Algerine politics and my sojourn in Africa.

An Algerine corsair took them off the Munster coast and I mean to send them back to their parents, peasants in a village I know.

I have been aboard an Algerine corsair and a Sallee rover, and since their chief aim is to take by boarding, they are usually very full of men.

Mr Blenkinsop, has just told me that tomorrow morning a delegation from the new Dey, Hassan, will arrive to congratulate His Majesty on the defeat of Bonaparte, to announce his own accession, and to settle a point at issue the Algerine galley and its alleged cargo.

Even the battleship Wellesley and the brig Algerine sent from India had not engaged in warfare.

Albanian brigands, the banditti of Piedmont, the Lanzknechte and Freiritter of the Rhine, Algerine picaroons, and other such folk.

I afterwards found that these fellows were not Arabs, but Algerine refugees, and that they bore the character of being sad scoundrels.

Formosa, as much afraid of being seen by a Dutch or English merchant ship as a Dutch or English merchant ship in the Mediterranean is of an Algerine manof-war.

Other nations fought the Algerine or the Dunkerker to suppress piracy.

He had even speculated that the French were frightened that the bomb ketches might be attacked by the Algerine pirates, still occasionally raiding the Italian coasts.

After the usual formalities they told him that the Algerine pirates had so far raided Marsala and Mazara at the western end of the island of Sicily, and appeared to be making their way eastward.

Saracen, Algerine, Barbary - they were all pirates and had been for centuries, whether they came from the Levant in the east or Algiers in the west.