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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Sp.

picaron

, aug. of

picaro

roguish, n., a rogue.]

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.

Sir W. Temple.

Noun.

A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robber, but to pirates and plunderers of wrecks.

In all wars, Corsica and Majorca have been nests of picaroons.