Pirate
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A sea robber, who, to enrich himself, by subtlety or open force, setteth upon merchants and others trading by sea, despoiling them of their loading, and sometimes bereaving them of life and sinking their ships. Ridley, View, pt.
2, c. 1, § 3.
One guilty of the crime of piracy. Merlin, Repert. See, for the etymology of this word, Bac. Abr. "Piracy."