Rogue

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rogue \Rogue\, n. [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf.
     Icel. hr?kr a rook, croaker (cf. {Rook} a bird), or Armor.
     rok, rog, proud, arogant.]
     1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a
        tramp.
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     Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large
           class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
           They were formerly punished by being whipped and having
           the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
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     2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
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              The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope.
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     3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence,
        often used as a term of endearment.
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              Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!      --Shak.
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     4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about
        alone, in which state it is very savage.
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     5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some
        choice variety.
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     {Rogues' gallery}, a collection of portraits of rogues or
        criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
  
     {Rogue's march}, derisive music performed in driving away a
        person under popular indignation or official sentence, as
        when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
  
     {Rogue's yarn}, yarn of a different twist and color from the
        rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to
        identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the
        maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to
        use yarns of different colors.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rogue \Rogue\, v. i.
     To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
     [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rogue \Rogue\, v. t.
     1. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
        [Obs.] --Cudworth.
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     2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a
        required standard).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rogue
       n : a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {knave}, {rascal},
            {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}, {varlet}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "rogue":
     SOB, bad boy, balker, balky horse, bastard, blackguard, blighter,
     booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, bum, cad, charlatan, cheat,
     churl, contumacious, creep, crock, cross-grained, crowbait, cur,
     cutup, dastard, devil, disobedient, dog, elf, enfant terrible,
     fractious, funmaker, garron, goat, good-for-nothing, hack,
     headstrong, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, incorrigible,
     independent, intractable, jade, joker, jokester, jughead, knave,
     lawless, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, minx,
     mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, mountebank, nag, pixie, plug,
     practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rampageous,
     rapscallion, rascal, rat, recalcitrant, refractory, roarer,
     rosinante, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace,
     scoundrel, self-willed, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, stiff, stinker,
     strong-willed, swindler, trickster, uncontrollable, undisciplined,
     ungovernable, unmanageable, unpredictable, unrestrained, unruly,
     villain, wag, wastrel, whistler, wild, wretch
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  rogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character
     graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix
     systems. The original BSD `curses(3)' screen-handling package was hacked
     together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development
     of `rogue(6)' popularized its use; it has since become one of Unix's
     most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega,
     Larn, Angband, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games (all
     known as `roguelikes') all took off from the inspiration provided by
     `rogue(6)'; the popular Windows game Diablo, though graphics-intensive,
     has very similar play logic. See also {nethack}, {moria}, {Angband}. 2.
     [Usenet] adj. An {ISP} which permits net abuse (usually in the form of
     {spam}ming) by its customers, or which itself engages in such
     activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to {IDP}s or {UDP}s.
     Sometimes deliberately misspelled as "rouge".
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  rogue
       
           [Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using
          character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently
          ported to other Unix systems.  The original BSD "curses(3)"
          screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to
          support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most
          important and heavily used application libraries.  Nethack,
          Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games
          all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)".  See
          also {nethack}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ROGUE. A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In 
  some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which 
  is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the 
  word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not 
  actionable.  5 Binn. 219. See 2 Dev. 162 Hardin, 529.