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- Revolutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
- Revolutionary - n. - A revolutionist.
- Macaroni - n. - The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
- Conservative - n. - One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
- Buckskin - n. - A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
- Socialism - n. - A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.
- Continental - a. - Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
- Cowboy - n. - One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
- Terrorist - n. - One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
- Boston - n. - A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
- Assignat - n. - One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
- Revolutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.