Search the Dictionary

A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

The quality or state of being a rogue. [Jocose] "Your rogueship." Dryden.

ation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.

Breeches. [Obs.] Shenstone.

A fellow rogue. [Obs.]

See Drag, n.,

See Pirogue.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]

To prog. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

To protract; to prolong; to extend. [Obs.] He prorogued his government. Dryden.

A wooden trough, forming a drain. Raymond.

inently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

nd with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

f religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. The rankest rogue that ever canted. Beau. & Fl.

of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. - Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian…

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

rain for rent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." Shak.

A rogue. [Obs.] Cockeram.