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LAWBREAKERS |
Offenders |
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DELINQUENTS |
Juvenile offenders |
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ACCOMPLICES |
Fellow offenders |
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BOWSTRING |
A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. |
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REFORMATORY |
An institution for promoting the reformation of
offenders. |
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FORBEARANCE |
The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward
offenders or enemies; long-suffering. |
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CLEMENCY |
Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness
of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. |
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FRITHSTOOL |
A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders
formerly fled for sanctuary. |
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MERCIFUL |
Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to
pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. |
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CUTTYSTOOL |
A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were
made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. |
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BOATING |
In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying
them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. |
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PENITENTIARY |
A house of correction, in which offenders are
confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they
are generally compelled to labor. |
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BASTILE BASTILLE |
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in
Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a
rhetorical name for a prison. |
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BEADLE |
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of
duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the
chastisement of petty offenders, etc. |
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WHIRLIGIG |
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders,
being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender
was whirled round with great velocity. |
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BILBO |
A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock
at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on
board of ships. |
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VARUNA |
... hand a snaky cord or noose with
which to bind offenders, under water. ... |
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GREENCLOTH |
... justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the
peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards
b... |
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SERGEANT |
...steward in court, to arrest
traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and
two of these officers, by allowance of the sove... |