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Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.

A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. Pope.

ts, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. -- To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. [Obs.]

Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.

A woman guilty of fornication. Shak.

Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden.

Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.

In a guilty manner.

The quality or state of being guilty.

Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

est Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.

Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark.

n by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire. Mickle.