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Rogue, a wandering beggar, vagrant, vagabond. As to 'incorrigible rogue,' or 'rogue and vagabond,' see VAGRANT....
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
Canting
Speaking in a whining tone of voice using technical or religious terms affectedly affectedly pious as a canting rogue a canting tone...
Catso
A base fellow a rogue a cheat...
Comrogue
A fellow rogue...
Gue
A sharper a rogue...
Harlequin
A buffoon dressed in party colored clothes who plays tricks often without speaking to divert the bystanders or an audience a merry andrew originally a droll rogue of Italian comedy...
Ladrone
A robber a pirate hence loosely a rogue or rascal...
Loon
A sorry fellow a worthless person a rogue...
Picaresque
Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro meaning a rascal a knave a rogue an adventurer...
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