felon

felon
    n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally
         convicted of a crime [syn: {criminal}, {felon}, {crook},
         {outlaw}, {malefactor}]
    2: a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the
       area surrounding the nail [syn: {felon}, {whitlow}]
    

Felon \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.
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   2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
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   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.
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Felon \Fel"on\, a.
   Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious;
   cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
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         Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope.
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FELON, n.  A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in
embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
    

FELON, crimes. One convicted and sentenced for a felony.
     2. A felon is infamous, and cannot fill any office, or become a witness 
in any case, unless pardoned, except in cases of absolute necessity, for his 
own preservation, and defence; as, for example, an affidavit in relation to 
the irregularity of a judgment in a cause in which he is a party. 2 Salk. R. 
461; 2 Str. 1148;. Martin's R. 25; Stark. Ev. part 2, tit. Infamy. As to the 
effect of a conviction in one state, where the witness is offered in 
another, see 17 Mass. R. 515 2 Harr. & McHen. R. 120, 378; 1 Harr. & Johns. 
R. 572. As to the effect upon a copartnership by one of the partners 
becoming a felon, see 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1493. 
    

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