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A person who has committed a felony.

Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton. -- Fe*lo"ni`ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"n…

Wicked; felonious. [Obs.] Spenser.

A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. Howitt.

The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.

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Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

Not felonious, malignant, or criminal. G. Eliot.

Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson.

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

One who accuses another of felony or treason. [Obs.]

One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evide…

icious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

merly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.