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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Felon \Fel"on\, noun [OE., adjective, cruel, noun, villain, ruffian, traitor, whitlow, F. f['e]lon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See Fell, adjective]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Felon \Fel"on\, adjective Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
felon
noun
1: someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime [syn: {criminal}, {crook}, {outlaw}, {malefactor}]
2: a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail [syn: {whitlow}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "felon": Judas, 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, 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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
FELON, noun A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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