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rogue |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. 2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope. 3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence often used as a term of endearment. Ah you sweet little rogue, you! --Shak. 4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage. 5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rogue \Rogue\, v. i. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rogue \Rogue\, v. t. 1. To give the name or designation of rogue to to decry. [Obs.] --Cudworth. 2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rogue n : a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {knave}, {rascal}, {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}, {varlet}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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}. 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 mispelled as "rouge". From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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}]
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