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Felon
| 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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