Definition of fugitive

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Fugitive (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor..

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Runaway :: Runaway (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..
Abscondence :: Abscondence (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
Blood Money :: Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser..
Flier :: Flier (v.) One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
Fugitiveness :: Fugitiveness (n.) The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
Fugitive :: Fugitive (a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea..
Fugitively :: Fugitively (adv.) In a fugitive manner.
Runagate :: Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
Rendition :: Rendition (n.) The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war..
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Extraditable :: Extraditable (a.) Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice..
Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice..
Maroon :: Maroon (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains..
Fugitive :: Fugitive (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor..
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
Extradite :: Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition..
Transfugitive :: Transfugitive (n.) One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate..
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