Felon
['felən] or ['fɛlən]
Definition
(noun.) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail.
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Definition
(a.) A person who has committed a felony.
(a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
(a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
(a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Typist: Nathaniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Culprit, criminal, malefactor, convict, outlaw.[2]. Whitlow.
a. [Poetical.] Felonious.
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Definition
n. one guilty of felony: a convict: a wicked person: an inflamed sore.—adj. wicked or cruel.—adj. Felō′nious wicked: depraved: done with the deliberate intention to commit crime.—adv. Felō′niously.—n. Felō′niousness the quality of being felonious.—adj. Fel′onous (Spens.) felonious.—ns. Fel′onry a body of felons; Fel′ony (orig.) a crime punished by total forfeiture of lands &c.: a grave crime beyond a misdemeanour as that punishable by penal servitude or death.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- Here the felon is condemned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If he hesitates or moves a finger but as you bid him, drag him into the street, call for the aid of the police, and impeach him as a felon in my name. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- An instant afterwards he had closed the door behind us, and we had become felons in the eyes of the law. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Marvin