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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. [1913 Webster] The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment. [1913 Webster] Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage. [1913 Webster] 5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rogue \Rogue\, v. i. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rogue \Rogue\, v. t. 1. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.] --Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard). [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: rogue n 1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {rogue}, {knave}, {rascal}, {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}, {varlet}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [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}, {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 misspelled as ?rouge?.