Word Meanings - FELLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Variant of Felon. Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to FELLON)

• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FELONIOUS
  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
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• FELON
  A person who has committed a felony. 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. (more info) whitlow, F. félon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See
• FELONOUS
  Wicked; felonious. Spenser.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• GROUNDAGE
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.
• GROUNDLING
  A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.
• VARIANT
  1. Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse. 2. Changeable; changing; fickle. He is variant, he abit nowhere. Chaucer.
• FELONRY
  A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. Howitt.
• GROUND
  A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. 2. Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action;
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• GROUNDSILL
  Defn:
• FELONWORT
  The bittersweet nightshade . See Bittersweet.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• INVARIANT
  An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• INFELONIOUS
  Not felonious, malignant, or criminal. G. Eliot.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• UNDERGROUND
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.