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Algerine, n. and a.|ældʒəˈriːn|
[f. Alger-ia + -ine1.]
A. n.
1. An inhabitant or native of Algiers or Algeria; esp. a pirate from Algiers.
1657J. Somer 12 May in Cal. Clarendon State Papers (1876) III. 287 Their whole fleet under Blake was destroyed by the Algerines. 1669Pepys Diary 26 Jan. (1896) VIII. 211 The Algerines have broke the peace with us. 1728J. Morgan Hist. Algiers II. 433 Hassan Basha, with his Algerines, determined to attack that small Peninsula. 1785Jefferson Writ. (1894) IV. 25 The Algerines..have taken two of our vessels. 1819Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 39 At a few minutes before three, the Algerines, from the Eastern battery, fired the first shot at the Impregnable. 1870Thornbury Old Stories 249 The Algerines stood astonished at the English audacity. 1890S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs 302 The French..beating back the Algerines as they advanced.
†2. transf. One who acts like a pirate. Hence Algeˈrineism. U.S. Obs.
1841Foote Texas & Texans 83 A transaction which will..call down retributive vengeance upon these American Algerines. 1844Congress. Globe 11 Mar. 360/1 The gentleman from Rhode Island had talked of ‘ruffianism’ in that State, and of ‘Algerines’; but if the proposition he made to this House was not a specimen of ‘Algerineism’, he apprehended it was not to be found in Rhode Island. a1861Winthrop John Brent (1883) vii. 57 He's one er them Algerines what don't know a dark hint, till it begins to make motions.
3. A popular name for one of the cetaceans; a dolphin or porpoise. Also as adj.
1849H. Melville Mardi I. xiii. 63 Of a somewhat similar species [to the Black Fish]..were the Algerines; so called, probably, from their corsair propensities; waylaying peaceful fish on the high seas. 1851― Moby Dick I. xxxi. 228 Algerine Porpoise. A pirate. Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. 1911Cent. Dict., Algerine, a grampus: because common off the coast of Algiers.
B. adj. Of or belonging to Algiers or Algeria; characteristic of Algiers pirates.
1657R. Clement 31 Mar. in Cal. Clarendon State Papers (1876) III. 265 The money sent by the Turks to hire the Algerine fleet has been lost at sea. 1682in L. Hertslet Treaties (1820) I. 63 In like manner no Algerine passenger being on board any ship or vessel in enmity with the said King of Great Britain shall be in any way molested. 1728J. Morgan Hist. Algiers I. 348 The Algerine Turks. 1772H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 15 Dec. (1818) 84 The plunder of your prints by that Algerine hog. 1818Fearon Sketches 150 He [sc. the captain] is an American, tall, determined, and with an eye that flashes with Algerine cruelty. 1819Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 175 It is well known that the Algerine government are very rich, by their plundering at sea. 1864Mrs. Gaskell French Life i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 438/2 The window-curtains and portières are made of handsome dark Algerine stripe. 1870Thornbury Old Stories 250 An Algerine frigate. 1873Handbk. Trav. Algeria (John Murray) 22 The audacity of the Algerine pirates at this time was unparalleled. 1925E., O. & S. Sitwell Poor Young People 3 Wears an Algerine turbane. |