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The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the sp…

for the sake, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. Moved with wrath and shame and ladies; sake. Spenser. I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. Gen. viii. 21. Will he draw out, For anger's s…

Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent. The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. Dryden.

to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.

o pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.

. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil, prostitution.

ship. [R.] The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings. Jer. Taylor.

to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor. I view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new. Pope.

tefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

To fall into a crime or an error; to err. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. 1 John ii. 10.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. Tennyson.

Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide. -- Su"i*ci`dal*ly, adv.

f suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime. Bacon.

ts, with unkindness. Shak. Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. Dryden. Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.