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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Law One who has committed a felony.
  2. n. Archaic An evil person.
  3. adj. Archaic Evil; cruel.
  4. n. A painful purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. Also called whitlow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A wicked person; a cruel, fierce person; one guilty of heinous crimes.
  2. n. In law, a person who has committed a felony. The term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed.
  3. n. Felony.
  4. n. Synonyms Criminal, convict, malefactor, culprit, outlaw.
  5. Wicked; malignant; malicious; treacherous; proceeding from a depraved heart.
  6. Obtained by felony or crime; of goods, stolen.
  7. Wretched; forlorn.
  8. n. In medicine:
  9. n. An acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of the finger or toe, especially of the distal phalanx, generally seated near the nail; paronychia; whitlow.
  10. n. A sort of inflammation in quadrupeds, similar to whitlow in man.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person convicted of a felony.
  2. n. evildoer; wrongdoer
  3. adj. evil; bad; immoral

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person who has committed a felony.
  2. n. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
  3. n. A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
  4. adj. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
  2. n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

Etymologies

  1. Middle English feloun, from Old French felon, wicked, a wicked person, from Medieval Latin fellō, fellōn-, possibly of Germanic origin.Middle English feloun, probably from Latin fel, gall, bile; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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