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A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.

The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community. After him the rascal many ran. Spenser.

Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating. "This oily rascal." Shak. His oily compliance in all alterations. Fuller. Oily grain (Bot.), the sesame. -- Oily palm, the oil palm.

Having the quality of a pander. "O, you panderly rascals." Shak.

hat class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] Howitt.

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. De Quincey.

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope.

The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.

Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive. Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye. Marton.

Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.] "Traitorly rascals." Shak.

Excessively rude. [Obs. & R.] "See how the unrude rascal backbites him." B. Jonson.

without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet. What a brazen-faced varlet art thou ! Shak.

emely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope.