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Felon

Felon Meaning & Definition
Felon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Felon?

[n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
[n] a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

Synonyms | Synonyms for Felon: criminal | crook | malefactor | outlaw | whitlow

Related Terms | Find terms related to Felon: 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 | Judas | 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

See Also | abductor | accessary | accessory | arsonist | Billie the Kid | blackmailer | Bonney | bootlegger | briber | coconspirator | conspirator | contrabandist | desperado | desperate criminal | drug dealer | drug peddler | drug trafficker | extortioner | extortionist | firebug | fugitive | fugitive from justice | gangster | gangster's moll | goon | gun moll | habitual criminal | highbinder | highjacker | hijacker | hood | hoodlum | incendiary | infection | James | Jesse James | kidnapper | law offender | lawbreaker | liquidator | MacGregor | machinator | mafioso | manslayer | mobster | moll | mooncurser | moonshiner | murderer | offender | parolee | peddler | plotter | probationer | punk | pusher | racketeer | raper | rapist | recidivist | repeater | Rob Roy | Robert MacGregor | runner | scofflaw | smuggler | snatcher | stealer | strong-armer | suborner | thief | thug | tough | toughie | traitor | treasonist | violator | William H. Bonney | wrongdoer

Felon In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. 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.
\Fel"on\, a. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope.

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