Dictionary: MAKI – MAL

► MAKIN n. a fool, a simpleton → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAKING adj. money-making, prosperous → 1434 obs.
n. 1. of tea: the quantity or amount made at one time → 1773 Sc.
n. 2. everything, the whole lot → 1876 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a petting, fondling, caressing → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MAKING-AS-IF n. pretense, make-believe → 1813
► MAKING CRUTCHES FOR LAME DUCKS phr. an answer to ‘what are you doing?’ → 2007 Amer. dial.
► MAKINGS n. 1. earnings, profits → 1837 colloq.
n. 2. opportunities; chances; openings → 1866 Eng. dial.
n. 3. anything of importance or consequence → 1895 Eng. dial.
n. 4. loose tobacco and paper for hand-rolled cigarettes → 1905 Amer. dial.
► MAKIN’S n. tobacco for a cigarette → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MAKINT adj. confident, assured, bold, brazen → 1808 Sc.
► MAKINTLY adv. with ease, confidence, and assurance → 1903 Sc.
► MAKO adj. inquisitive, gossipy, meddlesome → 20C W. Indies sl.
n. 1. a fool, an idiot → 20C W. Indies sl.
n. 2. a gossip, a busybody → 20C W. Indies sl.
n. 3. a peeping Tom → 20C W. Indies sl.
n. 4. an effeminate man → 20C W. Indies sl.
vb. 1. to act as a voyeur → 20C W. Indies sl.
vb. 2. to gossip scandalously → 20C W. Indies sl.
vb. 3. to interfere in other people’s affairs → 20C W. Indies sl.
► MAKOOLA n. home-brewed beer or liquor → 1882 Amer. dial.
► MAKRELTY n. brokerage → 1495 obs.
► MAL vb. to shout, to scream → 1905 Eng. dial.
► MALACE n. a calm at sea → 1623 obs.
► MALACISSANT adj. softening → 1638 obs.
► MALACISSATION n. the act of making soft or supple → 1638 obs.
► MALACOPHONOUS adj. having a gentle voice; soft-voiced → 1910 (Bk.)
► MALACOUTER vb. to beat, to thrash, to punish → 1910 Sc.
► MALADIF adj. sickly; delicate → 1886
► MALADDRESS n. want of dexterity or tact; awkwardness → 1804
► MALADDY adj. said of one who is intoxicated and cutting capers → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALADE n. a sick person; an invalid → 1483 obs.
► MALADERIE n. a hospital, esp. for lepers → 1461 obs. exc. Hist.
► MALADIOUS adj. affected with sickness, sickly → 1500 obs.
► MALADIVE adj. affected with sickness, sickly → 1481
► MALADIZE vb. to affect with a malady → 1790 obs.
► MALADROIT adj. wanting in adroitness or dexterity; awkward, bungling, clumsy → 1685
► MALADVENTURE n. a lawless proceeding; an escapade; an unlucky undertaking; a misadventure → 1470 obs.
► MALADY OF FRANCE n. syphilis → 16C
► MALAFEE n. whisky → 1923 Amer. dial.
► MALAFOOSTER vb. to destroy, to wreck, to ruin → 1950 Sc.
► MALAGAROUSE vb. 1. to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil → 1894 Sc.
vb. 2. to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence → 1924 Sc.
► MALAGARUZE vb. to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil → 1894 Sc.
► MALAGASH adj. pert. to Madagascar → 1793
n. a native of Madagascar → 1711
► MALAGASY adj. pert. to Madagascar, its inhabitants, language, etc. → 1835
n. 1. the language of Madagascar → 1835
n. 2.  a native of Madagascar → 1839
► MALAGROOSE vb. to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence → 1924 Sc.
► MALAGRUGOROUS adj. dismal, lugubrious → 1818 jocular usage
► MALAGRUGROUS adj. grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy → 1819 Sc. obs.
► MALAGRUGROUSLY adv. grimly, gloomily → 1818 Sc.
► MALAGRUIZE n. a hunt, an injury, a drubbing → 1916 Sc.
vb. 1. to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil → 1894 Sc.
vb. 2. to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence → 1924 Sc.
► MALAGRUIZED ► MALAGRUZED adj. in disorder, rumpled → 1864 Sc.
► MALAHACK vb. 1. to cut or carve in a slovenly, awkward way → 1825 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to act boisterously; to rough-house → 1901 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to injure, to beat, to maltreat → 1901 Amer. dial.
vb. 4. of a horse or donkey: to become disabled or worn out by hard work → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALAKY n. 1929 insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense → sl., orig. US
► MALANDRYN n. a highwayman; a robber → 1460 obs.
► MALAPAVIS n. a mischance; a misfortune → 1825 Sc.
► MALAPEN vb. to hurt, to harm → 1861 Sc.
► MALAPERT adj. presumptuous, impudent, saucy; bold or forward from lack of proper respect or modesty → 1420 obs. exc. arch.
n. 1622 a presumptuous, impudent, pert, or saucy person → obs. exc. arch.
► MALAPERTNESS n. the quality of being presumptuous; impudence, sauciness → 1430 obs. exc. arch.
► MALAPPROPRIATE adj. inappropriate → 1910 (Bk.)
► MALAPROP adj. given to ludicrous misuse of words → 1840
n. ludicrous misuse of words → 1823
► MALAPROPIAN adj. given to ludicrous misuse of words → 1860
► MALAPROPISM n. ludicrous misuse of words; an instance of this → 1849
► MALAPROPOISM n. ludicrous misuse of words → 1834
► MALARKEY ► MALARKY n. 1. insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense → 1929 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a dolt → 1946 Amer. sl.
► MALAVOGUE vb. to punish in some dire but undefined way; to beat, to chastise → 1843 Ireland & Eng. dial.
► MALAVOGUEING n. a beating → 1848 Eng. dial.
► MALAWU n. whisky → 1949 Amer. dial.
► MALCHANCE n. mischance → 1911 Sc.
► MALCOLM FRASER n. a razor → 1960 Aust. rhyming sl.
► MALCOLM X n. a tablet of MDMA → 1995 Brit. drug culture sl.
► MALCONTENT adj. discontented, dissatisfied; inclined to rebellion or mutiny; restless and disaffected → 1586
n. 1. a discontented or dissatisfied person → 1581
n. 2. the state of being discontented → 1591 obs.
► MALCONTENTED adj. discontented, dissatisfied → 1586 obs.
► MALDISANT n. an evil speaker, a slanderer, a backbiter → 1598 obs.
► MALE n. 1. an apple, an apple tree → 1400 obs.
n. 2. the common dandelion, Leontodon Taraxacum → 1851 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a bull, a boar, a stallion → 20C US euphemism
n. 4. five hundred herrings → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. to marry → 1938 Hawaii
► MALEASE n. 1. absence of ease; uneasiness, discomfort; inconvenience, annoyance; disquiet; distress, trouble → 1300 obs.
n. 2. disease, sickness → 1300 obs.
► MALE AUNT n. an uncle → 1821
► MALE BAWD n. a pander → 1607
► MALE BEAST n. a male domestic animal used for breeding, esp. a bull → 1890 Amer. euphemism
► MALE BEAVER n. naked male genitals → 1969 US sl.
► MALEBOUCHE n. evil speaking personified → 1390 obs.
► MALE BRUTE n. a bull or a stallion → 20C US rural euphemism
► MALEDDY adj. in high spirits, boisterous, elated → 1923 Sc.
► MALEDICENCY n. the practice or habit of speaking evil → 1653 obs.
► MALEDICENT adj. given to evil-speaking; slanderous → 1599
n. one who speaks evil of another; a slanderer → 1657
► MALEDICT adj. accursed → 1867 arch.
n. an accursed person → 1550 arch.
vb. to curse, to execrate → 1780
► MALEDICTED adj. accursed; evil-spoken of → 1727
► MALEDICTION n. 1. the utterance of a curse; the condition of being under a ban or curse → 1447
n. 2. a reviling, slander → 1526
► MALEDICTORY adj. of the nature of a malediction or cursing → 1822
► MALEDIGHT adj. cursed, accursed → 1300 obs.
vb. to curse → 1300 obs.
► MALEFACT n. a criminal act; an offense; evil-doing → 1534 obs.
► MALEFACTION n. evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing; a criminal act → 1602
► MALEFACTIOUS adj. wicked, criminal → 1660 obs.
► MALEFACTORY adj. evil-doing; criminal → 1871
► MALEFACTRESS n. a female felon or criminal; an evil-doer → 1647
► MALEFACTURE n. evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing → 1635 obs.
► MALEFIC adj. productive of disaster or evil → 1652
n. a malign wizard → 1652 obs.
► MALEFICAL adj. productive of disaster or evil → 1615 obs.
► MALEFICATE vb. to bewitch → 1827
► MALEFICE n. 1. a bad action; the act or effect of witchcraft; a wicked enchantment; sorcery → 1374 arch.
n. 2. an evil deed; mischief → 1374 arch.
► MALEFICENCE n. 1. evil-doing → 1598
n. 2. harmfulness → 1796
► MALEFICENT adj. 1. of things and spiritual agencies: working harm, hurtful, malefic → 1678
adj. 2. of persons, their acts and dispositions: wrong-doing, criminal → 1760
► MALEFICIAL adj. maleficent; harmful → 1601 obs.
► MALEFICIATE adj. bewitched; spec., rendered impotent by spells → 1613 obs.
vb. to bewitch; to affect with enchantments; to render impotent by spells; to do evil to; to hurt; to harm → 1621 obs.
► MALEFICIATION n. the act of bewitching → 1649 obs.
► MALEFICIOUS adj. of the nature of witchcraft → 1547 obs.
► MALE-FIDIAN n. a misbeliever → 1659 obs.
► MALE FORTUNE n. misfortune → 1470 obs. 
► MALEGERENT adj. ill-behaving, unthrifty, improvident → 1727 obs.
► MALEGROBOLOUS adj. grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy → 1819 Sc. obs.
► MALEGRUGROUS adj. grim, ghastly; discontented-looking → 1742 Sc.
► MALEHOUSE n. a homosexual brothel → 1963 US sl.
► MALE JOURNEY n. an unfortunate battle → 1455 obs.
► MALE-MULES n. the testicles → 1653
► MALENGIN n. evil machination; ill-intent; fraud, deceit, guile → 1390 obs.
► MALEOLENT adj. having an ill smell → 1657 obs. rare
► MALESHAG n. a caterpillar that devours cabbages → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MALESUETE adj. that has contracted an ill habit or custom → 1727 obs. rare
► MALETOLT n. an unjust or burdensome tax → 1514 Law obs.
► MALE TWIGS n. low quality marijuana → 1979 US sl.  
► MALEURED adj. ill-fortuned → 1529 obs.
► MALEUROUS adj. unhappy, unfortunate, wretched → 1460 obs.
► MALEURTEE n. misfortune → 1471 obs.
► MALEVOLENCY n. ill-will; the wishing evil to others → 1662 obs.
► MALEVOLO n. a malevolent or malicious person → 1648 obs.
► MALEVOLOUS adj. malevolent; desirous of evil to others; disposed to ill will → 1536 obs.
► THE MALE WRINGS phr. something is wrong, there is a state of hardship → 1430 obs.
► MALFEASANCE n. wrongdoing; an instance of this → 1856 rare
► MALFEASANT adj. evil-doing → 1809
n. an evil-doer; a criminal → 1882
► MALFEASOR n. an evil-doer; a malefactor → 1330 obs.
► MALFETOUR n. a malefactor; a criminal; an evil-doer → 1450 obs.
► MALFUNCTION JUNCTION n. an area characterized by exasperating and confused activity; a bewildering or heavily congested highway intersection; a traffic jam  → 1975 Amer. sl.
► MALGOVERNANCE n. bad government → 1673 obs.
► MALGRACE n. 1. ill grace; ill favour; disfavour → 1425 obs.
n. 2. something of ill grace or ill favour; something unbecoming → 1882 arch.
► MALGRACIOUS adj. ill-favoured, uncomely; ungracious, disobliging → 1390 obs.
► MALHAVELINS n. small matters, bits and pieces; odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; typically used of food or small change → 1865 sl.
► MALHEUR n. misfortune → 1471 obs.
► MALICEFUL adj. 1. malicious → 1839 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. sickly; in bad health → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MALIFEROUS adj. bringing or producing evil or harm; hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy → 1727
► MALIFICE n. a bad action; the act or effect of witchcraft → 1721 Sc. obs.
► MALIGNATION n. 1. feeling of dislike or ill-will → 1500 obs.
n. 2. a malefic incantation → 1652 obs.
n. 3. the act of maligning or slandering → 1836
► MALIGNE n. malice, wickedness → 1460 obs.
► MALIGNIFY vb. to render malign → 1613
► MALIGNIOUS adj. maligning someone or something; of malicious speech → 1578 obs.
► MALIGNOUS adj. malignant → 1610 obs.
► MALIHINI adj. strange, uncharacteristic → 20C Hawaii
n. a stranger, a newcomer; a visitor, a tourist → 1914 Hawaii
► MAL-INFORTUNED adj. ill-fortuned → 1475 obs. 
► MALINGERY n. a malingering → 1847
► MAL-INTENTIONEE n. an evil-intentioned person → 1734 obs.
► MALISON n. 1. a curse, malediction → 1300 arch. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. the state or condition of being cursed → 1375 obs.
n. 3. the personification of evil; the Evil One → 1898 Sc.
n. 4. a person who is cruel to animals → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 5. a mischievous child → 1920 Sc.
vb. to curse; to pronounce a malediction upon → 1588 Sc. obs.
► MALISM n. the doctrine that this world is an evil one → 1883
► MALIST n. one who holds the doctrine that this world is an evil one → 1882
► MALKIN n. 1. used as a female personal name; typically applied to a woman of the lower classes → 1275 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a mop; a bundle of rags fastened to the end of a stick, esp. that used to clean out a baker’s oven → 1400 obs.
n. 3. an effeminate man → 1400 obs.
n. 4.  the vagina → 1540 Sc.
n. 5. an untidy female, esp. a servant or country wench; a slut, a slattern; occasionally, a lewd woman → 1586 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 6. a scarecrow; a ragged puppet or grotesque effigy; a ‘guy’ → 1633 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 7. a cat → 1673 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a hare → 1724 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 9. a showily or eccentrically dressed person; a term of abuse or contempt for anyone → 1873 Sc.
► MALKIN-TRASH n. a dismally-dressed person → 17C colloq.
► MALKY n. 1. a safety razor used as a weapon; hence, an improvised weapon, such as a broken bottle, etc. → 1973 Sc. sl.
n. 2. a cut given from a razor as an act of violence; a blow; a beating → 1973 Sc. sl.
vb. to attack and cut someone with a razor; to stab → 1985 Sc. sl.  
► MALL n. 1. credit → 1909 metal trades’ sl.
n. 2. a highway median strip → 1947 Amer. dial.
n. 3. in a town: the strip of grass and trees between the sidewalk and the curb → 1967 Amer. dial.
► MALLACHIE adj. of the colour of milk and water mixed → 1808 Sc.
n. the colour of milk and water mixed together → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MALLAGRUGOUS adj. grim, ghastly; discontented-looking → 1742 Sc.
► MALLARD n. a $100 note → 1985 US sl.
► MALLARKEY n. nonsense → 1924 Amer. sl.
► MALL CRAWL n. an outing to a shopping centre, slowly moving from shop to shop → 1996 US sl.
► MALL CRAWLER n. a person who spends their spare time at shopping centres → 1993 US sl.
► MALLEATE vb. to beat with a hammer; to beat metal thin or flat → 1597
► MALLEE n. one of the gardener caste in India; hence, any native gardener → 1759 Anglo-Indian
► MALLEE ROOT n. a prostitute → 1999 Aust. rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► MALLEMAROKING n. the visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships → 1867 nautical usage
► MALLERAG vb. to abuse, to scold → 19C Eng. dial.
► MALLET n. 1. someone or something that beats down or crushes → 1525 obs.
n. 2. a little bag or portmanteau → 1612 obs.
n. 3. the fist → 1821 sl.
vb. 1. to beat, to hammer → 1594 obs. exc. arch
vb. 2. to smash; to defeat → 1982 Brit. sl.
► MALLETHEAD n. a fool, a stupid person, a numbskull → 1954 US sl.
► MALLETING BOUT n. a fist-fight → 1823 sl.
► MALLEY n. a gardener → 1864 Anglo-Indian
► MALLEYSHAG n. a caterpillar that devours cabbages → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MALLIE n. 1. one of the gardener caste in India; hence, any native gardener → 1759 Anglo-Indian
n. 2. a person, esp. a teenager, who hangs a round a public shopping mall → 1985 Amer. sl.
► MALLIFUFF ► MAULIFUFF adj.  silly, paltry, incapable of energetic action, feckless → 1827 Sc.
n.  an ineffectual, fussy woman who lacks energy to get things done → 1808 Sc.
► MALLING n. 1. a beating → 1874 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the practice of spending hours at a shopping centre, socializing with other young people → 1989 US sl.
► MALLISFUL adj. malicious → 1839 Eng. dial.
► MALLISHAG n. a caterpillar that devours cabbages → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MALL MADONNA n. a girl who spends a lot of time at a shopping centre → 1982 US sl.
► MALLOCK n. a pig → 1889 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to mix together → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 2. to scandalize → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALL RAT n. a person, esp. a teenager, who hangs a round a public shopping mall → 1982 Amer. sl.
► MALLS n. the measles → 1746 Eng. dial.
► MALLY adj. foolishly fond → 1592 obs.
int. indeed! → 1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a hare → 1846 Sc.
n. 2. a female ass → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 3. a man who interferes with woman’s work → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALLYGRUGGLE vb. to spoil or crush → 1919 Sc.
► MALLYHACK vb. 1. to cut or chop rudely or roughly → 1953 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to injure, to beat, to maltreat → 1953 Amer. dial.
► MALLY-MOP n. a dirty wench → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALLY-MUCK-HEAP n. a confused heap → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALLY-WALLOPS n. a tall, untidy woman → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MALM adj. mellow, soft → 1691 Eng. dial.
vb. to become soft → 1641 Eng. dial.
► MALMANAGEMENT n. mismanagement → 1675 chiefly Sc., obs.
► MALMSEY-FACE n. a face inflamed by drink  → 1611
► MALMSEY NOSE n. a heavily acned nose; the assumption being that the acned nose is the result of drinking too much ‘malmsey’ wine → L17 sl.
► MALMY adj. 1. of weather: warm and damp → 1677 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of fruit: mellow, soft, juiceless; of food generally: vapid, tasteless → 1843 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MALODOROUS adj. evil-smelling → 1850
► MALODOUR n. an evil smell; a stench → 1825
► MALOLLY n. nonsense, bunk → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MALOLLYPOP n. nonsense, bunk → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MAL-OMINOUS adj. of evil omen → 1612 obs.
► MALONEY n. nonsense → 1979 Amer. sl.
► MALOROUS adj. evil; unfortunate; malicious → 1876 Sc.
► MALPLEASANT adj. unpleasant, disagreeable → 1532 obs.
► MALPOSED adj. wrongly placed → 1900
► MALPROPRIETY n. want of proper condition; disorderliness → 1888
► MALSHAVE n. a caterpillar → 1592 obs.
► MALSHRAG n. a caterpillar → 1398 obs.
► MALT n. 1 .malt liquor → 1718 colloq.
n. 2. a Maltese → L19 sl.
n. 3. sweat; great heat → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to drink malt liquor → 1813
► THE MALT ABOVE THE MEAL n. a slight stage of intoxication → 1801 Sc.
► MALTALENT adj. ill-tempered → 1578 obs.
n. ill-will, malevolence → 1320 obs.
► MALTALENTIVE adj. malevolent → 1450 obs.
► MALT AND MEAL n. food and drink → 1861 Sc.
► MALT-BREE n. any liquor made with malt → 1785 Sc.
► MALT-BUG n. one who loves malt liquor; a toper; a lover of beer → 1577 obs.
► MALT COVE n. a beer drinker → 19C sl.
► MALTED adj. 1. drunk, tipsy → 19C sl.
adj. 2. perspiring; heated → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALTEE n. a Maltese cat → 1907 Amer. dial.
► MALTEN-HEARTED adj. faint-hearted → 1905 Eng. dial. obs.
► MALTER vb. 1. to depart quickly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 2. to melt, to dissolve, to become pulverized → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALTESER n. a Maltese → 1950 sl.
► MALTESIAN n. an inhabitant of Malta → 1656 obs.
► MALT-HORSE n. 1. a strong, heavy kind of horse used by maltsters → 1561 obs.
n. 2. a term of reproach or abuse for a dull, stupid fellow; a dolt → 1590 obs.
n. 3. a tippler → 1593 sl.
► MALTHING n. stockings without feet → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MALT-INSPIRED adj. inspired by drink → 1838 Eng. dial.
► THE MALT IS ABOVE THE BEIR phr. said of a person under the influence of drink → 1670 obs. 
► THE MALT IS ABOVE THE MEAL phr. said of a person under the influence of drink → 1721
► THE MALT IS ABOVE THE WATER phr. said of a person under the influence of drink → 1678 obs.
► THE MALT IS ABOVE WHEAT phr. said of a person under the influence of drink → 1546 obs.
► MALTOOLING n. the practice of picking pockets in omnibuses → 1851 obs.
► MALTOOT n. a marine → L18 sl.
► MALTOUT n. a nickname for a marine, used by sailors and soldiers of other corps → 1785 sl. obs.
► MALT PIE n.  drink, liquor → 1600 jocular usage, obs.
► MALTSCALE n. the common green caterpillar → 1856 Eng. dial.
► MALTSHAG n. a caterpillar that devours cabbages → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MALT SHOP n.  a liquor store → 1970 US students’ sl.
► MALTWORM n.  a lover of malted liquors; a beer drinker, a drunkard, a tippler → 1550
► MALTY adj.  drunk → 1819 sl., obs.
► MALTY COVE n.  a beer drinker → 1825 UK sl.
► MALUM vb. to understand → L19 army sl.
► MALUNGEON n. one of a race of people in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee said to have partly Indian blood → 1913 Amer. dial.
► MALVADER vb. to stun with a blow, to daze, to injure → 1824 Sc.
► MALVADERING n. a fight with the fists, a beating → 1821 Sc.
► MALVERISH adj. badly behaved, mischievous, bad-mannered → 1880 Sc.
► MALVERSATION n. 1. corrupt behaviour in an office, commission, employment, or position of trust; an instance of this → 1549
n. 2. evil conduct → 1752 obs.
► MALVERSE adj. dishonest, criminal → 1791 Sc. obs.
n. 1. a crime → 1700 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a breach of trust, an act of duplicity, grave misconduct → 1703 Sc. obs.
vb. 1. to act corruptly in a position of trust → 1671 obs.
vb. 2. to do wrong; to give an erroneous judgement → 1709 Sc. obs.