Definition of knave

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Knave (n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain..

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Greek :: Greek (n.) A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
Tom :: Tom (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.
Knight :: Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Jack :: Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Loo :: Loo (n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo..
Knave :: Knave (n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
Beknave :: Beknave (v. t.) To call knave.
Knaveries :: Knaveries (pl. ) of Knaver.
Knave :: Knave (n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain..
Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..
Pam :: Pam (n.) The knave of clubs.
Euchre :: Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower..
Varlet :: Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack..
Shyster :: Shyster (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves..
Knavery :: Knavery (n.) Roguish or mischievous tricks.
Picaresque :: Picaresque (a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer..
Knavess :: Knavess (n.) A knavish woman.
Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight..
Lousy :: Lousy (a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave..
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