'Felon' definitions:
Definition of 'felon'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
noun
A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail [syn: felon, whitlow]
Definition of 'Felon'
From: GCIDE
- Felon \Fel"on\, a. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. [1913 Webster]
- Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Felon'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'felon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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