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Filibuster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

Filibuster [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.

Filibuster Encyclopedia Britannica

FILIBUSTER, a name first given to the buccaneers, a band of piratical adventurers who maintained themselves chiefly in the Caribbean seas during the 17th century (see Buccaneer). The origin of the term has been explained in two ways,—some deriving it from the English word flyboat, French flibot, Spanish flibote, a name given to a small vessel not exceeding 100 tons, which, on account of its sailing qualities, was much used by pirates, while others make it synonymous with the Dutch vry buiter, German freibeuter, English freebooter, the word changing first into fribustier, and then into French flibustier, Spanish filibustero. Flibustier has passed into the French language and filibustero into the Spanish language as a general name for a pirate, and the term filibuster was revived in America to designate those adventurers who, after the termination of the war between Mexico and the United States, organized expeditions within the United States against the Spanish West Indies.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 9, p. 162
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Filibustering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Filibusterism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.