or FLIBUSTER, a name given to the pirates who scour the American seas, particularly such as make war against the Spaniards. See BUCCANEER.

The French call them flibustiers, deducing the word from the English filibote, or filibote; by reason the first adventurers of this kind were the people of St. Domingo, who made their excursions with filibotes, which they had taken from the English.