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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Marque n.  Law A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
 Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the enemy's ships and merchandise. The ship so commissioned is sometimes called a letter of marque.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·pris·al n.
 1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
    Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place.   --Macaulay.
 2. Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.
 3. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.
 4. Any act of retaliation.
 Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.