(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law. / (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. / (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.

(UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment. / (nonce word) To commit crime.

Against the law; forbidden by law. / Guilty of breaking the law. / Of or relating to crime or penal law. / (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable.

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

(law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment. / (law) A specific statute, ordinance, regulation, or other source of law that deems an action to be a crime.

A person who is skilled in, or practices criminology

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. / (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. / (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. / To pinch and hold; to seize.

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.