An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
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One who abducts.
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Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.
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Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contrib…
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One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
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A thief.
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One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter.
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One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
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A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
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One who practices extortion.
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Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
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A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.
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State; condition.
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A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.
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Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
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Alt. of Kidnapper
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One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
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One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
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One who, or that which, liquidates.
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One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
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One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
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Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
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A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
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One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
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One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
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One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.
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One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
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Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
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One who, or that which, pushes.
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One who, or that which, repeats.
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One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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One who smuggles.
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One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
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One who steals; a thief.
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One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
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One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
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One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearl…
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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…
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One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yie…
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One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.
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Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…
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A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
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A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
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Guilty of crime or sin.
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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
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A person who has committed a felony.
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A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
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