Felon \Fel"on\, n. [OE., adj., cruel, n., villain, ruffian,
traitor, whitlow, F. f['e]lon traitor, in OF. also, villain,
fr. LL. felo. See Fell, a.]
1. (Law) A person who has committed a felony.
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2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
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3. (Med.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the
periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
Syn: Criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Felon \Fel"on\, a.
Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious;
cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
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Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
felon
n 1: someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a
crime [syn: criminal, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
2: a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the
area surrounding the nail [syn: whitlow]
WordNet (r) 2.0
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wrongdoer
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
FELON, crimes. One convicted and sentenced for a felony.
2. A felon is infamous, and cannot fill any office, or become a witness
in any case, unless pardoned, except in cases of absolute necessity, for his
own preservation, and defence; as, for example, an affidavit in relation to
the irregularity of a judgment in a cause in which he is a party. 2 Salk. R.
461; 2 Str. 1148;. Martin's R. 25; Stark. Ev. part 2, tit. Infamy. As to the
effect of a conviction in one state, where the witness is offered in
another, see 17 Mass. R. 515 2 Harr. & McHen. R. 120, 378; 1 Harr. & Johns.
R. 572. As to the effect upon a copartnership by one of the partners
becoming a felon, see 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1493.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in
embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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