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Crimeful :: Crimeful (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury..

Object :: Object (v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

Nocent :: Nocent (n.) A criminal.

Infelonious :: Infelonious (a.) Not felonious, malignant, or criminal..

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution..

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor..

Dock :: Dock (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.

Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Piacularity :: Piacularity (n.) The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..

Lictor :: Lictor (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals..

Spot :: Spot (v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal..

Criminous :: Criminous (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.

Criminal :: Criminal (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code..

Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..

Inquest :: Inquest (n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand..

Process :: Process (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial..

Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Panel :: Panel (n.) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.

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