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• Roger

  ·add. ·noun A black flag with white skull and crossbones, formerly used by pirates; — called also J...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• roger

  1) A goose. Cant. Jolly Roger; a flag hoisted by pirates. 2) A portmanteau; also a man's yard. Cant...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Ascham, Roger

  (1515-1568) Didactic writer and scholar, s. of John A., house-steward in the family of Lord Scrope,...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bacon, Roger

  (1214?-1294) Philosopher, studied at Oxford and Paris. His scientific acquirements, regarded in tha...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• roger gough

  n. an absurd name given to thetree Baloghia lucida, Endl., N.O. Euphorbiaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden,...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jolly roger

  A pirate's flag; a white skull in a black field. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• L'Estrange, Sir Roger

  (1616-1704) Journalist and pamphleteer, youngest s. of a Norfolk baronet, was probably at Camb., an...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of

  (1621-1679) Statesman and dramatist, third s. of the Earl of Cork, was ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Wendover, Roger de

  (d. 1236) Chronicler, a monk of St. Albans, became Prior of Belvoir, from which he was deposed for ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin