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felon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun felon has 2 senses
- felon(n = noun.person) criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime; Array has particulars: accessary, accessory, arsonist, firebug, incendiary, blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist, bootlegger, moonshiner, briber, suborner, coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter, desperado, desperate criminal, fugitive, fugitive from justice, gangster, mobster, highbinder, highjacker, hijacker, goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie, gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird, abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher, mafioso, gangster's moll, gun moll, moll, liquidator, manslayer, murderer, parolee, probationer, drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher, racketeer, raper, rapist, habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater, scofflaw, contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler, stealer, thief, traitor, treasonist, law offender, lawbreaker, violator, billie the kid, bonney, william h. bonney, james, jesse james, macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor
- felon(n = noun.state) whitlow - a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail; Array is a kind of infection
is a kind of principal
CIDE DICTIONARY
felon, n. [OE., adj., cruel, n. , villain, ruffian, traitor, whitlow, F. félon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See Fell, a. ].
- A person who has committed a felony. [1913 Webster]
- A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
Syn. -- Criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit.
felon, a.
Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. [1913 Webster]
"Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
felon, n. & adj.
--n. a person who has committed a felony.
--adj. archaic cruel, wicked.
--n. a person who has committed a felony.
--adj. archaic cruel, wicked.
Derivative
felonry n.
felon, n. an inflammatory sore on the finger near the nail.
Etymology
ME, perh. as FELON(1): cf. med.L felo, fello in the same sense
DEVIL DICTIONARY
felon
n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.THESAURUS
felon
Judas, abscess, aposteme, bad person, bed sore, betrayer, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, convict, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, delinquent, desperado, desperate criminal, double-dealer, eschar, evildoer, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, fugitive, furuncle, furunculus, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, jailbird, kibe, lawbreaker, lesion, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, public enemy, pustule, quisling, racketeer, rising, scab, scofflaw, sinner, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, swindler, traitor, transgressor, tubercle, two-timer, ulcer, ulceration, villain, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, worker of ill, wound, wrongdoerROGET THESAURUS
felon
Bad Man
N bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity, evildoer, sinner, the wicked, bad example, villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff, wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin, tiger, monster, devil, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Nana Sahib, hellhound, hellcat, rakehell, bad woman, jade, Jezebel, scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag, rou_e, rake, Sadist, skeesicks, skeezix, limb, one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog, rounder, lost sheep, black sheep, castaway, recreant, defaulter, prodigal, rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother, ruffian, bully, meanie, Jonathan Wild, hangman, incendiary, arsonist, fire bug, thief, murderer, terrorist, culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp, disorderly person, misdemeanant, outlaw, scofflaw, vandal, felon, (convicted criminal), criminal, convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man, multiple offender, blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak, rapscallion, rascallion, cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole, cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel, lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond, rogue, ronian, scum of the earth, riffraff, Arcades ambo, Int, sirrah!, Acherontis pabulum, gibier de potence.
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