Algerinen.adj.

1657 J. Somer Let. 12 May in Cal. Clarendon State Papers (1876) III. 287 Their whole fleet under Blake was destroyed by the Algerines.

1669 S. Pepys Diary 26 Jan. (1976) IX. 427 The Algerins have broke the peace with us.

1677 E. Settle Ibrahim ii. 12 Taken Prisoner by the Algereens, I to that Voyage owed my Turkish chains.

1729 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers II. xi. 433 Hassan Basha, with his Algerines, determined to attack that small Peninsula.

1785 T. Jefferson Writings (1894) IV. 25 The Algerines..have taken two of our vessels.

1819 A. Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 39 At a few minutes before three, the Algerines, from the Eastern battery, fired the first shot at the Impregnable.

1857 Graham's Illustr. Mag. Nov. 434/1 Selim, an Algerine, who once turned up most unexpectedly in Augusta Co., Va.

1922 Times 10 Apr. 13/2 The Genoese had sold arms to the Algerines.

1960 S. G. E. Lythe Econ. of Scotl. vi. 191 The Algerines were open to bargain for captives, provided always that reason was well coated with ransom.

2011 B. Little How History's Pirates Pillaged ii. 33 The Algerines launched arrows and crossbow bolts.

1671 H. Stubbe Reply Def. Royal Soc. 34 The defamations of so ignominious and scandalous an Algerine as Mr Glanvill, do not reach so far, as the aspersions of his Master.

1841 H. S. Foote Texas & Texans II. 83 A transaction which will..call down retributive vengeance upon these American Algerines.

1844 Congress. Globe 11 Mar. 360/1 The gentleman from Rhode Island had talked of ‘ruffianism’ in that State, and of ‘Algerines’.

a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) vii. 71 He's one er them Algerines what don't know a dark hint, till it begins to make motions.

1849 H. 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 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 158 Algerine Porpoise. A pirate. Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific.

1947 R. C. Murphy Logbook for Grace iii. 114 I rushed on deck and saw..several of the rare and little known beaked whales... Captain Cleveland recognized them... He called them ‘algerines’.

1657 R. Clement Let. 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.

1682 in L. Hertslet Treaties (1820) I. 63 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.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 348 The Algerine Turks.

1768 J. Blair Let. 12 July in William & Mary Q. (2000) 87 139 I beg leave to inform..that the Councill have by me paid the passage to London of a most unfortunate Algereen young man named Salim.

1819 A. Salamé Narr. Exped. Algiers 175 It is well known that the Algerine government are very rich, by their plundering at sea.

1864 E. C. Gaskell French Life i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 438/2 The window-curtains and portières are made of handsome dark Algerine stripe.

1873 Handbk. Trav. Algeria (John Murray) 22 The audacity of the Algerine pirates at this time was unparalleled.

1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 3 Wears an Algerine turbane.

2005 S. Tucker Stephen Decatur ix. 157 Soon the assumed Algerine vessel was in sight of the entire squadron.

1690 T. Brown Late Converts Exposed 54 The very person that was to deliver the immortal writers of former ages out of that Algerin captivity they had so long labour'd under.

1772 H. Walpole Let. 15 Dec. (1818) 84 The plunder of your prints by that Algerine hog.

1789 J. O'Keeffe Highland Reel ii. iii. 39 What are locks and brick walls against such an Algerine family as Shelty's?

1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 150 He [sc. the captain] is an American, tall, determined, and with an eye that flashes with Algerine cruelty.

1831 Times 28 Jan. 2/3 ‘No Algerine Act’,—‘Repeal of the Union,’ and so forth, rung in the ears of the Lord Lieutenant.

1875 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 12 Sept. Every port would have its Algerine combination for depredating upon commerce.

1844 Congress. 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.