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    Rogue \Rogue\, n. [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf.
    Icel. hr?kr a rook, croaker (cf. Rook a bird), or Armor.
    rok, rog, proud, arogant.]
    1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a
    tramp.
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    Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large
    class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
    They were formerly punished by being whipped and having
    the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
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    2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
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    The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope.
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    3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence,
    often used as a term of endearment.
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    Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! --Shak.
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    4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about
    alone, in which state it is very savage.
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    5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some
    choice variety.
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    Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or
    criminals, for the use of the police authorities.

    Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a
    person under popular indignation or official sentence, as
    when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.

    Rogue's yarn, yarn of a different twist and color from the
    rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to
    identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the
    maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to
    use yarns of different colors.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Rogue \Rogue\, v. i.
    To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
    [Obs.] --Spenser.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Rogue \Rogue\, v. t.
    1. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
    [Obs.] --Cudworth.
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    2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a
    required standard).
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    rogue
    n : a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: knave, rascal,
    rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    102 Moby Thesaurus words for "rogue":
    SOB, bad boy, balker, balky horse, bastard, blackguard, blighter,
    booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, bum, cad, charlatan, cheat,
    churl, contumacious, creep, crock, cross-grained, crowbait, cur,
    cutup, dastard, devil, disobedient, dog, elf, enfant terrible,
    fractious, funmaker, garron, goat, good-for-nothing, hack,
    headstrong, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, incorrigible,
    independent, intractable, jade, joker, jokester, jughead, knave,
    lawless, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, minx,
    mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, mountebank, nag, pixie, plug,
    practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rampageous,
    rapscallion, rascal, rat, recalcitrant, refractory, roarer,
    rosinante, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace,
    scoundrel, self-willed, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, stiff, stinker,
    strong-willed, swindler, trickster, uncontrollable, undisciplined,
    ungovernable, unmanageable, unpredictable, unrestrained, unruly,
    villain, wag, wastrel, whistler, wild, wretch

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


    rogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character
    graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix
    systems. The original BSD `curses(3)' screen-handling package was hacked
    together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development
    of `rogue(6)' popularized its use; it has since become one of Unix's
    most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega,
    Larn, Angband, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games (all
    known as `roguelikes') all took off from the inspiration provided by
    `rogue(6)'; the popular Windows game Diablo, though graphics-intensive,
    has very similar play logic. See also nethack, moria, Angband. 2.
    [Usenet] adj. An ISP which permits net abuse (usually in the form of
    spamming) by its customers, or which itself engages in such
    activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to IDPs or UDPs.
    Sometimes deliberately misspelled as "rouge".

    Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)


    rogue

    [Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using
    character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently
    ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)"
    screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to
    support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most
    important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack,
    Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games
    all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See
    also nethack.

    [{Jargon File]

    The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)


    ROGUE. A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In
    some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which
    is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the
    word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not
    actionable. 5 Binn. 219. See 2 Dev. 162 Hardin, 529.

    Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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